Moho undulations beneath Tibet from GRACE-integrated gravity data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 971-985

  Shin, Young Hong ^a   Xu, Houze ^b   Braitenberg, Carla ^c   Fang, Jian ^b   Wang, Yong ^b  

^a Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)   (South Korea)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

GRACE; Gravity inversion; Moho buckling; Moho ranges; Tibet; Upward continuation

Indexed keywords

BELT; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOPOTENTIAL; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; MOHO; SATELLITE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROUGH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34548126079     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03457.x     Document Type: Article

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