Seismic images of crust and upper mantle beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasian plate subduction

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5596, 2002, Pages 1219-1221

  Kind, R ^a   Yuan, X ^a   Saul, J ^a   Nelson, D ^a   Sobolev, S V ^a   Mechie, J ^a   Zhao, W ^a   Kosarev, G ^a   Ni, J ^a   Achauer, U ^a   Jiang, M ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUST; EURASIAN PLATE; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPPER MANTLE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS;

CHINA;

EID: 0012884569     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078115     Document Type: Article

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