Crustal structure beneath Yinggehai basin and adjacent Hainan Island, and its tectonic implications

Journal of Earth Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-26

  Wu, Shimin ^a   Qiu, Xuelin ^a   Zhou, Di ^a   Zeng, Gangping ^b   Xia, Kanyuan ^a   Ye, Sanyu ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b Seismological Bureau of Hainan Province   (China)

^c NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Pull apartbasin; South China Sea; Strike slipfault; Yinggehai

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; AMPLITUDE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DATA INVERSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PULL APART BASIN; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAINAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YINGGEHAI BASIN;

EID: 70349974427     PISSN: 1674487X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12583-009-0002-7     Document Type: Article

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