Moho offset across the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5380, 1998, Pages 1170-1172

  Zhu, Lupei ^a,b   Helmberger, Donald V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOHO; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

MOHO;

EID: 3543026261     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5380.1170     Document Type: Article

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