Crustal structure across Longmenshan fault belt from passive source seismic profiling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Wang, Yanghua ^c   Chen, Yun ^a   Houseman, Gregory A ^b   Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Wang, Erchie ^a   Teng, Jiwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; LOWER CRUST; MOHO TOPOGRAPHY; NEGATIVE PHASE; NEGATIVE POLARITY; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC PROFILING; SEISMIC SIGNATURES; SICHUAN BASIN; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; WESTERN SICHUAN BASIN;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC METHOD; TECTONICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 71949099794     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039580     Document Type: Article

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