The crust and upper mantle structure beneath Yunnan from joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave dispersion data

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 134-146

  Li, Yonghua ^a   Wu, Qingju ^a   Zhang, Ruiqing ^a   Tian, Xiaobo ^b   Zeng, Rongsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Joint inversion; Receiver function; Surface wave dispersion; Yunnan area

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTIC WAVES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES;

JOINT INVERSION; RECEIVER FUNCTION; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; YUNNAN AREA;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FOLD BELT; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVE; TECTONIC PLATE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; BAOSHAN; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PANXI RIFT; SHANGHAI; SICHUAN; SIMAO; TENGCHONG; YANGTZE PLATFORM; YUNNAN;

EID: 53449095254     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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