Specific gravity field and deep crustal structure of the 'Himalayas east structural knot'

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1045-1052

  Teng, Ji Wen ^a,b   Wang, Qian Shen ^a   Wang, Guang Jie ^a   Xu, Ya ^a   Zhang, Xue Mei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deep crustal structure; East structural knot; Gravity field; Himalayas; Wedge insertion

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; OROGENIC BELT; TECTONIC SETTING;

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

EID: 33749379210     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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