Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography in western Sichuan and eastern Tibet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 201-211

  Li, Hongyi ^a,b   Su, Wei ^c   Wang, Chun Yong ^c   Huang, Zhongxian ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient noise tomography; Crustal structure; Surface waves; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS METHODS; BROAD-BAND DATUM; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION CURVES; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; LATERAL VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY ZONES; RAYLEIGH WAVE TOMOGRAPHIES; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SHORT PERIODS; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASINS; TECTONIC FEATURES; THRUST BELTS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WESTERN SICHUAN;

LIGHT VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

AMBIENT NOISE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORRELATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOTECTONICS; STACKING; WAVE VELOCITY;

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

EID: 67349124095     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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