Partial melt in the upper-middle crust of the northwest Himalaya revealed by Rayleigh wave dispersion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 477, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 58-65

  Caldwell, Warren B ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^a   Rai, Shyam S ^b   Lawrence, Jesse F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Dispersion; Himalaya; Rayleigh waves; Surface waves; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHANNELS; AQUEOUS FLUIDS; BROADBAND SEISMOMETERS; HEAT FLOWS; HIMALAYA; HIMALAYAN OROGEN; HIMALAYAS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LOW RESISTIVITY; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; MAGNETOTELLURIC STUDIES; NORTHWEST HIMALAYA; PARTIAL MELT; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; RAYLEIGH-WAVE DISPERSION; SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY; THEORETICAL MODELS; THRUST BELTS; TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER-MIDDLE CRUST; VELOCITY MODEL;

CHANNEL FLOW; DISPERSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; VELOCITY; WALL FLOW; WATER WAVES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

CHANNEL FLOW; PARTIAL MELTING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE DISPERSION;

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

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 70349847616     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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