Crust and upper mantle structure beneath western China from P wave travel time tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Xu, Yi ^a   Liu, Futian ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^a   Chen, Hui ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Crust and upper mantle; Lithospheric structure; Seismic tomography; Western China

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 0037058169     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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