Gravity inversion in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 381-386

  Braitenberg, C ^a   Zadro, M ^a   Fang, J ^b   Wang, Y ^b   Hsu, H T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Gravity methods; Moho; Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MOHO;

CHINA;

EID: 0034100057     PISSN: 14641895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-1895(00)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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