The thickness and structural characteristics of the crust across Tibetan plateau from active-sources seismic profiles

Earthquake Science

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-31

  Li, Qiusheng ^a,b   Gao, Rui ^a,b   Lu, Zhanwu ^a,b   Guan, Ye ^a,b   Zhang, Jisheng ^a,b   Li, Pengwu ^a,b   Wang, Haiyan ^a,b   He, Rizheng ^a,b   Karplus, Marianne ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Geosciences   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sources seismic; Crustal structure; Crustal thickness; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 63049129874     PISSN: 16744519     EISSN: 18678777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-009-0021-6     Document Type: Article

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