Strong Lg attenuation in the Tibetan Plateau

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2264-2272

  Fan, Guang Wei ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LANDFORMS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; TECTONICS;

LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOCALIZED PATH GEOMETRIES; PARTIAL MELTING;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LG-WAVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 1042263923     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030052     Document Type: Article

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