The effective lithospheric elastic thickness of the continent is an important parameter for examination of the large-scale structure and analyses of the mechanism of isostatic compensation within the plate, and a parameter standing for the strength of the lithosphere. The Te values along QuanzhouHeishui, the southeast section of the Arctic Ocean-Eurasian Continent-Pacific Ocean geoscience transect,are estimated by using the coherence technique developed by Forsyth. Studies of the feature of the coherence between gravity and topography suggest that at short wavelengths (6.6-100 km) for each data box that is used to estimate Te, the plate is strong enough to support topographic loads and gravity and topography are uncorrelated. At long wavelengths where the plate is deflected by surface and subsurface loads are compensated by the flexure model. Sichuan land-stone with Iow heat-flow values has high Te values whereas in Ninghua, Datian, land-stone with high heat-flow values has low To values, which reflects a correlation, iow heat-flow values corresponding to high Te values and high heat-flow values corresponding to low Te values. Te values can be divided into two sections: northwest high section and southeast iow section. There is roughly a positive correlation between crustal thickness and effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere.