Insight into the geodynamics of cratonic reactivation from seismic analysis of the crust-mantle boundary

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Zheng, T Y ^a   Zhao, L ^a   Zhu, R X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; GEOPHYSICS; MINERALS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; DISTINCT FEATURES; EVOLUTION (CO); JUNCTION ZONE; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; NORTH CHINA CRATON (NCC); PERMANENT STATIONS; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC STRUCTURES; SHARP INTERFACES; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TECTONIC BELTS; TRANSITION ZONES; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DELAMINATION; GEODYNAMICS; REACTIVATION; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSITION ZONE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 48249105911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033439     Document Type: Article

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