Seismic evidence for significant lateral variations in lithospheric thickness beneath the central and western North China Craton

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 171-183

  Chen, Ling ^a   Cheng, Cheng ^a   Wei, Zigen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

lithospheric thickness; lithospheric thinning; North China Craton; S receiver functions

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; BOUNDARY ZONES; CRATONIC NUCLEUS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LATE CENOZOIC; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; NORTH CHINA CRATON; REMOBILIZATION; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TELESEISMIC; UPPER MANTLE;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THINNING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PETROLOGY; REMOBILIZATION; RIFTING; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMOTECTONICS; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; ORDOS;

EID: 69549121741     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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