Seismic imaging of the downwelling Indian lithosphere beneath central Tibet

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5624, 2003, Pages 1424-1427

  Tilmann, Frederik ^a,e   Ni, James ^a   Hearn, T ^a   Ma, Y S ^a   Rapine, R ^a   Kind, R ^f   Mechie, J ^f   Saul, J ^f   Haines, S ^b   Klemperer, S ^b   Brown, L ^c   Pananont, P ^c   Ross, A ^c   Nelson, K D ^d   Guo, J ^f   Zhao, W ^f  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f Cambridge University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC IMAGING;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INDIA; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

CHINA;

EID: 0038442824     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082777     Document Type: Article

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30. Project INDEPTH III was supported by the Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China, the U.S. National Science Foundation Continental Dynamics Program (grant EAR 9614616), and the Deutsche Forschungsgerneinschaft and GeoForschungsZentrurn Potsdam (GFZ), Germany. F.T. thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for partial support of this work. We thank the Chinese scientists and the Tibetans for their help in the field. The instruments were provided by the IRIS-PASSCAL program and the GFZ instrument pool. We thank J. VanDecar for the initial version of the tomography code used; J. P. Morgan, C. Conrad, J. Jackson, K. Priestley, and R. Meissner for helpful discussions; and three anonymous reviewers for constructive reviews. This is Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences contribution number 7453.