Radial anisotropy in the crust and upper mantle beneath the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and surrounding regions

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 289-302

  Chen, Yun ^a   Badal, José ^b   Zhang, Zhongjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Radial anisotropy; Surface waves; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HIMALAYAN OROGENY; LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SH-WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

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

EID: 68849116995     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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