Reactivation of an Archean Craton: constraints from P- and s-wave tomography in North China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Allen, Richard M ^b   Zheng, Tianyu ^a   Hung, Shu Huei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARCHEAN; FINITE-FREQUENCY KERNELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY; MANTLE PLUME; NORTH CHINA; NORTH CHINA CRATON; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC STATION; TELESEISMIC; TRANSITION ZONES;

SHEAR WAVES;

CRATON; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 71949123520     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039781     Document Type: Article

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