Evidence for upper crustal anisotropy in the Songpan-Ganze (northeastern Tibet) terrane

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Vergne, Jérôme ^a   Wittlinger, Gérard ^b   Farra, Véronique ^c   Su, Heping ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONS;

ANISOTROPIC LAYERS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER CRUST;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0041409893     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016847     Document Type: Article

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