Seismic anisotropy of upper mantle in eastern Tibetan Plateau and related crust-mantle coupling pattern

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1150-1160

  Wang, ChunYong ^a   Chang, LiJun ^a   Lü, ZhiYong ^b   Qin, JiaZheng ^c   Su, Wei ^a   Silver, Paul ^d   Flesch, Lucy ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF SICHUAN PROVINCE   (China)

^c EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF YUNNAN PROVINCE   (China)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crust mantle coupling; Fast wave direction; Lithospheric deformation; SKS wave; Upper mantle anisotropy

Indexed keywords

CRUST-MANTLE COUPLING; FAULT TREND; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STACKING ANALYSIS METHOD;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; FAULT; GPS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; STACKING; STRESS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; YUNNAN;

EID: 34447301756     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0053-5     Document Type: Article

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