Structural heterogeneities in the crust and upper mantle beneath Taiwan

Tectonophysics

Volumn 476, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 460-477

  Wang, Zhi ^a,b   Fukao, Yoshio ^b   Zhao, Dapeng ^c   Kodaira, Shuichi ^b   Mishra, O P ^d   Yamada, Akira ^e  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^e EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eurasian continental lithosphere; Mountain building; Seismic tomography; Structural heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; ARRIVAL TIME; ARRIVAL-TIME DATA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EURASIAN CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EURASIAN PLATES; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC IMAGE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; SUBDUCTED CONTINENTAL CRUST; TECTONIC MODELS; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES; TELESEISMIC EVENTS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UPPER MANTLE;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; RYUKYU ISLANDS; TAIWAN;

EID: 70349767928     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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