Crustal deformation of the Lhasa terrane, Tibet plateau from Project INDEPTH deep seismic reflection profiles

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 501-519

  Alsdorf, Douglas ^a   Brown, Larry ^a   Nelson, K Douglas ^b   Makovsky, Yizhaq ^c   Klemperer, Simon ^c   Zhao, Wenjin ^d  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; MAGMATISM; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TERRANE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0031797104     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC01315     Document Type: Article

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