Crust and uppermost mantle structure of the Ailaoshan-Red River fault from receiver function analysis

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1043-1052

  Xu, Mingjie ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^b   Zhong, Kai ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Hu, Dezhao ^a   Xu, Zhen ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ailaoshan Red River fault; Crust and upper mantle; Poisson'sratio; Receiver function; Velocity structure

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND DIGITAL SEISMIC STATION; CRUST; RECEIVER FUNCTION; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVE RECORDS; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

LITHOLOGY; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

AILAO MOUNTAINS; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; RED RIVER [ASIA]; YUNNAN;

EID: 33749487337     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-006-1043-8     Document Type: Article

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