Figure 5
Comparison of the effective viscosities from the present study (solid lines for the Gardés relation) and ref.45 (shadowed powder blue and faded pink for ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ lithosphere, respectively) at four sites along the MT transect. The site positions along the MT transect are marked in colors. The purple and red arrows indicate regular decreases from the northern Yangtze block (YB) to the southern North China Craton (NCC) for the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ lithosphere45, respectively.
