The layered shear-wave velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle in China

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 746-755

  Sun, Youshun ^a   Toksöz, M Nafi ^a   Pei, Shunping ^b   Morgan, F Dale ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

CRUST; GEOGRAPHIC GRID; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

TECTONICS;

BODY WAVE; CORRELATION; CRUST; EARTHQUAKE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 42649114760     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050222     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bassin, C., G. Laske, and G. Masters (2000). The current limits of resolution for surface wave tomography in North America, EOS 81, F897.
2. Bouchon, M. (2003). A review of the discrete wavenumber method, Pure Appl. Geophys. 160, 445-465.
3. Friederich, W. (2003). The S-velocity structure of the east Asian mantle from inversion of shear and surface waveforms, Geophys. J. Int. 153, 88-102.
4. Global Centroid Moment Tensor (CMT) Project catalog search, www.globalcmt.org/CMTsearch.html (last accessed December 2007).
5. Goes, S., R. Govers, and P. Vacher (2000). Shallow mantle temperatures under Europe from P and S wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 11,153-11,169.
6. Hu, J., Y. Su, X. Zhu, and Y. Chen (2005). S-wave velocity and Possion's ratio structure of crust in Yunnan and its implication, Sci. China Ser. D: Earth Sci. 48, no. 2, 210-218.
7. Huang, Z., W. Su, Y. Peng, Y. Zheng, and H. Li (2003). Rayleigh wave tomography of China and adjacent regions, J. Geophys. Res. 108, no. B2, 2073, doi 10.1029/2001JB001696.
8. Laske, G., and G. Masters (1997). A global digital map of sediments thickness (abstract), EOS 78, F483.
9. Lebedev, S., and G. Nolet (2003). Upper mantle beneath southeast Asia from S velocity tomography, J. Geophys. Res. 108, no. B1, 2048, doi 10.1029/2000JB000073.
10. Lu, D., Q. Li, R. Gao, Y. Li, D. Li, W. Liu, and Z. Zhang (2000). A deep seismic sounding profile across the Tianshan Mountains, Chin. Sci. Bull. 45, no. 22, 2100-2106.
11. Mooney, W. D. (199 8). CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5° × 5°, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 727-747.
12. Pei, S., J. Zhao, Y. Sun, Z. Xu, S. Wang, H. Liu, and C. A. Rowe (2007). Upper mantle seismic velocities and anisotropy in China determined through Pn and Sn tomography, J. Geophys. Res. 112, B05312, doi 10.1029/2006JB004409.
13. Ritzwoller, M. H., M. P. Barium, A. Villasenor, A. L. Levshin, and E. R. Engdahl (2002). Pn and Sn tomography across Eurasia to improve regional seismic event locations, Tectonophysics 358, no. 1-4, 39-55.
14. Shapiro, N. M., and M. H. Ritzwoller (2002). Monte Carlo inversion for a global shear velocity model of the crust and upper mantle, Geophys. J. Int. 151, 88-105.
15. Song, Z. H., C. Q. An, G. Y. Chen, L. H. Chen, Z. Zhuang, Z. W. Fu, and J. F. Hu (1991). Study on 3-D velocity structure and anisotropy beneath the west China from the Love wave dispersion, Acta Geophys. Sin. 34, 694-707 (in Chinese).
16. Stevens, J. L., D. A. Adams, and G. E. Baker (2001). Improved surface wave detection and measurement using phase-matched filtering with a global one-degree dispersion model, in Proc. of 23rd Seismic Research Review: Worldwide Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 2-5 October, 420-430.
17. Sun, Y., and M. N. Toksoz (2006). Crustal structure of China and surrounding regions from P wave traveltime tomography, J. Geophys. Res. 111, B03310, doi 10.1029/2005JB003962.
18. Sun, Y., S. Kuleli, F. D. Morgan, W. Rodi, and M. N. Toksöz (2004). Location robustness of earthquakes in Sichuan province, China, Seism. Res. Lett. 75, no. 1, 54-62.
19. Sun, Y., X. Li, S. Kuleli, F. D. Morgan, and M. N. Toksöz (2004). Adaptive moving window method for 3-D P-velocity tomography and its application in China, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, 740-746.
20. Wu, F. T., A. L. Levshin, and V. M. Kozhevnikov (1997). Rayleigh wave group velocity tomography of Siberia, China and vicinity, Pure Appl. Geophys. 149, 447-473.
21. Wu, J. P., Y. H. Ming, and C. Y. Wang (2001). The S wave velocity structure beneath digital seismic stations of Yunnan province inferred from teleseismic receiver function modelling, Chin. J. Geophys. 44, 237-243.
22. Xu, G., G. Li, S. Wang, H. Chen, and H. Zhou (2000). The 3-D structure of shear waves in the crust and mantle of east continental china inverted by rayleigh wave data, Chin. J. Geophys. 43, 376-384.
23. Xu, M., L. Wang, J. Liu, K. Zhong, H. Li, D. Hu, and Z. Xu (2006). Crust and uppermost mantle structure of the Ailaoshan-Red River fault from receiver function analysis, Sci. China Ser. D: Earth Sci. 49, no. 10, 1043.
24. Zou, Z., and X. Chen (2003). Mapping the crustal S-wave velocity structure by using the SV component receiver function method, Acta Seism. Sinica 16, 16-25.