Lateral variations in compressional velocities beneath the Tibetan Plateau from Pn traveltime tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 1070-1084

  Zhao, Lian‐She ^a   Xie, Jiakang ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

inversion; Key words:; mantle; seismic tomography; Tibet.

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE (UPPER); P WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVELTIME DATA;

CHINA, TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0027829049     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1993.tb01510.x     Document Type: Article

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