Moho offset beneath the central Bangong-Nujiang suture of Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 607-613

  Xu, Qiang ^a,b   Zhao, Jun Meng ^a   Cui, Zhong Xiong ^a,b   Pei, Shun Ping ^a   Liu, Hong Bing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bangong Nuiang suture; CCP time to depth migration; Moho offset; P receiver function; Upper mantle discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949294006     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0387-9     Document Type: Article

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