The crust and upper mantle structure beneath southeastern China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 549-563

  Ai, Yinshuang ^a   Chen, Qi fu ^b   Zeng, Fei ^c   Hong, Xing ^c   Ye, Wenyan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF FUJIAN PROVINCE   (China)

Author keywords

crustal thickness; Poisson's ratio; receiver functions; slab; the upper mantle discontinuity

Indexed keywords

COMMON CONVERTED POINT; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TRANSITION ZONE THICKNESS;

POISSON RATIO; SILICA; TECTONICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; POISSON RATIO; STACKING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34447532341     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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