Crust-mantle structure difference across the gravity gradient zone in North China Craton: Seismic image of the thinned continental crust

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 43-58

  Zheng, Tianyu ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Zhao, Liang ^a   Xu, Weiwei ^a   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Gravity modeling; Lower crust thinning; North China Craton; Receiver function imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAVITATION; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

GRAVITY MODELING; LOWER-CRUST THINNING; RECEIVER FUNCTION IMAGING; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

TECTONICS;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THINNING; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMOTECTONICS; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 33748662022     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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