Crustal structure of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau from the Songpan-Ganzi terrane to the Ordos basin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 420, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 253-266

  Liu, Mingjun ^a,b   Mooney, Walter D ^b   Li, Songlin ^a,b   Okaya, Nihal ^b   Detweiler, Shane ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Crustal structure; Deep seismic sounding; NE Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

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

EID: 33744980966     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.01.025     Document Type: Article

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