Insight into craton evolution: Constraints from shear wave splitting in the North China Craton

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 168, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 153-162

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Zheng, Tianyu ^a   Lü, Gang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

North China Craton; Seismic anisotropy; Shear wave splitting; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELASTIC WAVES; ENDOCRINOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

CENOZOIC; LATE MESOZOIC; LITHOSPHERIC REJUVENATION; NORTH CHINA; NORTH CHINA CRATON; NUCLEUS FORMATION; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; TECTONIC CONTROLS; UPPER MANTLE;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; CRATON; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVE SPLITTING;

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

EID: 49749141623     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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