Shear wave splitting in the Southern margin of the Ordos block, North China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Huang, Zhouchuan ^a   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Mi, Ning ^a   Yu, Dayong ^a   Li, Hua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVES;

A STABLES; ASIAN CONTINENTS; GPS SITES; NORTH CHINAS; SOUTH CHINAS; TIBET PLATEAUX; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPIES; UPPER MANTLES; WAVE SPLITTING;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GPS; MANTLE PROCESS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; ORDOS BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 57749177908     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035188     Document Type: Article

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