Crustal structure across the Xisha Trough, northwestern South China Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 341, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 179-193

  Qiu, Xuelin ^a   Ye, Sanyu ^b   Wu, Shimin ^a   Shi, Xiaobin ^a   Zhou, Di ^a   Xia, Kanyuan ^a   Flueh, Ernst R ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Moho interface; Ocean bottom hydrophone (OBH); Rifting; Xisha Trough

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHONE; MOHO; RAY TRACING; RIFTING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TERTIARY;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0035669484     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00222-0     Document Type: Article

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