Crustal structure across the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze platform, central China, from seismic refraction/wide-angle reflection data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 475, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 423-437

  Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Bai, Zhiming ^a   Mooney, Walter ^b   Wang, Chunyong ^c   Chen, Xuebo ^c   Wang, Erchie ^a   Teng, Jiwen ^a   Okaya, Nihal ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Composition; Huangling dome; Jianghan basin; P wave velocities; Yangtze platform; Zigui basin

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; HUANGLING DOME; JIANGHAN BASIN; P-WAVE VELOCITIES; YANGTZE PLATFORM; ZIGUI BASIN;

DOMES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY;

STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; THREE GORGES; ZIGUI;

EID: 70349152517     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.05.022     Document Type: Article

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