Moho depth and sedimentary thickness in Capital region

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1135-1145

  Luo, Yan ^a,b   Chong, Jia Jun ^b   Ni, Si Dao ^b   Chen, Qi Fu ^a   Chen, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Capital region; Moho depth; Receiver function; Sedimentary layer

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DATA INVERSION; MOHO; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 53949095829     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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