West-east variation in crustal thickness in northern Lhasa block, central Tibet, from deep seismic sounding data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; SEISMIC SURVEY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; XIZANG;

EID: 27744452066     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003139     Document Type: Article

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