Crust and mantle beneath western Himalaya, Ladakh and western Tibet from integrated seismic data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 75-87

  Oreshin, Sergey ^a   Kiselev, Sergey ^a   Vinnik, Lev ^a   Surya Prakasam, K ^b   Rai, Shyam S ^b   Makeyeva, Larissa ^a   Savvin, Yegor ^a  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

continental subduction; crust; lithosphere; receiver functions; S velocity; shear wave splitting; Tibet; traveltime residuals; western Himalaya

Indexed keywords

(E ,3E) PROCESS; COLD REGIONS; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEEP STRUCTURE; ELSEVIER (CO); HIGH VELOCITY; HIMALAYA; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; LEHMANN DISCONTINUITY; LESSER HIMALAYA; LINEAR ARRAYS; LOW VELOCITIES; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; S RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-VELOCITY; SEISMIC DATA; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING (SWS); SIMILAR ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TELESEISMIC; UPPER MANTLE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELASTIC WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEON; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RADAR STATIONS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SHEARING MACHINES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVES;

SPEED;

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; LADAKH; SOUTH ASIA; XIZANG;

EID: 43449119158     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.048     Document Type: Article

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