Shear wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle underneath the tianshan orogenic belt

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-330

  Li, Yu ^a   Liu, QiYuan ^a   Chen, JiuHui ^a   Li, ShunCheng ^a   Guo, Biao ^a   Lai, YuanGen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crust and upper mantle; Nonlinear inversion; Receiver function; S wave velocity; Tianshan orogenic belt

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CRUST; SEISMICITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUST; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; OROGENIC BELT; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 33947316914     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0008-x     Document Type: Article

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