Significant seismic anisotropy beneath the southern Lhasa Terrane, Tibetan Plateau

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Gao, Stephen S ^a   Liu, Kelly H ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibole; GPS; Mantle flow; Seismic anisotropy; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949131371     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002227     Document Type: Article

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