Constraining the extent of crust-mantle coupling in central Asia using GPS, geologic, and shear wave splitting data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 248-268

  Flesch, Lucy M ^a   Holt, William E ^b   Silver, Paul G ^a   Stephenson, Melissa ^a,c   Wang, Chun Yong ^d   Chan, Winston W ^e  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Multimax Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithospheric coupling; Shear wave splitting; Tibet and Yunnan

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; CRUST-MANTLE COUPLING; LITHOSPHERIC COUPLING; LITHOSPHERIC MODELS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT SLIP; GPS; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

EID: 26944497882     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.023     Document Type: Article

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