Upper mantle seismic velocities and anisotropy in China determined through Pn and Sn tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Pei, Shunping ^a   Zhao, Junmeng ^a   Sun, Youshun ^b   Xu, Zhonghuai ^c   Wang, Suyun ^c   Liu, Hongbing ^a   Rowe, Charlotte A ^d   Nafi Toksoz M ^b   Gao, Xing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC ZONE; STRONTIUM; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 34548562925     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004409     Document Type: Article

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