Lower velocities beneath the Taihang Mountains, northeastern China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1364-1369

  Chang, Xu ^a,b   Liu, Yike ^a,b   He, Jiankun ^a,b   Sun, Hongchuan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

P-WAVE VELOCITIES; PLAIN BASIN; VELOCITY STRUCTURES;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; P-WAVE; RIFT ZONE; SEISMICITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; TAIHANG MOUNTAINS;

EID: 34548095403     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060210     Document Type: Article

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