Insight into the origin of the Tengchong intraplate volcano and seismotectonics in southwest China from local and teleseismic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Lei, Jianshe ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Su, Youjin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF YUNNAN PROVINCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TENGCHONG; YUNNAN;

EID: 67651102696     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005881     Document Type: Article

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