A study of the velocity structure beneath himalaya mountain chain region using transform function method

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1735-1744

  Wang, Wei Min ^a   Su, You Liang ^a,b   Gao, Xing ^a   Guo, Zhi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Himalaya mountain chain region; SA method; Transform function; Velocity structure; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

MOUNTAIN REGION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 62749097971     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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