Underplating in the himalaya-tibet collision zone revealed by the Hi-CLIMB experiment

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5946, 2009, Pages 1371-1374

  Nábělek, John ^a   Hetényi, György ^b,g   Vergne, Jérôme ^b,h   Sapkota, Soma ^c   Kafle, Basant ^c,i   Jiang, Mei ^d   Su, Heping ^d   Chen, John ^e   Huang, Bor Shouh ^f   Mitchell, L ^a   Sherstad, D ^a   Arsenault, M ^a   Baur, J ^a   Carpenter, S ^a   Donnahue, M ^a   Myers, D ^a   Tseng, T L ^j   Bardell, T ^j   Vanhoudnos, N ^j   Pandey, M ^c   Chitrakar, G ^c   Rajaure, S ^c   Xue, G ^d   Wang, Y ^d   Zhou, S ^e   Liang, X ^e   Ye, G ^e   Liu, C C ^f   Lin, J ^f   Wu, C L ^f   Barstow, N ^k   more..

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c Department of Mines and Geology ^*  (Nepal)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

ⁱ ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^k PASSCAL Instrument Centre   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUST; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGING METHOD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION; THRUST FAULT; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDIA; LAND BIOME; LITHOSPHERE; NEPAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 70249104633     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167719     Document Type: Article

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