High velocity zone beneath the southern Tibetan plateau from P-wave differential travel-time data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-28

  Zhou, Ran ^a,b,c   Grand, Stephen P ^a,b,c   Tajima, Fumiko ^b,c   Ding, Xiao Yang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE (UPPER); MANTLE DOWNWELLING; P WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA, TIBETAN PLATEAU;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ANOMALY MODELS; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; DELAMINATION MODELING; P-WAVE TRAVEL-TIME; SOUTHERN TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRAVEL TIME DATA; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

VELOCITY;

EID: 0029753688     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03607     Document Type: Article

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