Structural elements of the southern Tethyan Himalaya rust from wide-angle seismic data

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 997-1005

  Makovsky, Yizhaq ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^a   Liyan, Huang ^b   Deyuan, Lu ^b   Wenjin, Zhao ^b   Xianwen, Liu ^b   Jinru, Guo ^b   Ming, Li ^b   Nelson, K D ^c   Chengde, Wu ^c   Brown, L D ^d   Hauck, M L ^d   Kuo, J T ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT; SEISMIC SURVEY; THRUSTING;

ASIA, HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0030430783     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC00310     Document Type: Article

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