Detection of southward intracontinental subduction of Tibetan lithosphere along the Bangon-Nujiang suture by P-to-S converted waves

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-212

  Shi, Danian ^a,b   Zhao, Wenjin ^a   Brown, Larry ^c   Nelson, Doug ^d   Zhao, Xun ^a   Kind, Rainer ^e   Ni, James ^f   Xiong, Jiayu ^a   Mechie, James ^e   Guo, Jinru ^c   Klemperer, Simon ^g   Hearn, Tom ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Lithospheric structure; Receiver function; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CONVERTED WAVES;

ARRAYS; DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

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

EID: 12144288893     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19814.1     Document Type: Article

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