Seismic imaging of the crust and upper mantle under Beijing and surrounding regions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 173, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 330-348

  Huang, Jinli ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beijing and surrounding regions; Geodynamics; Lithospheric thinning and detachment; North China Craton; Tomographic inversion

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BEIJING AND SURROUNDING REGIONS; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING AND DETACHMENT; NORTH CHINA CRATON; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 62749179589     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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