Deep seismic sounding data reveal the crustal structures beneath Zoigê basin and its surrounding folded orogenic belts

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-212

  Jia, Shi Xu ^a   Zhang, Xian Kang ^a   Zhao, Jin Ren ^a   Wang, Fu Yun ^a   Zhang, Cheng Ke ^a   Xu, Zhao Fan ^a   Pan, JiShun S ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Pan, Su Zhen ^a   Sun, Guo Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Basement structure; Crustal structure and tectonics; Deep seismic sounding; Folded orogenic belt; Zoig basin

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT STRUCTURES; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE AND TECTONICS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE MODELS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW VELOCITIES; LOWER CRUST; MESOZOIC; OROGENIC BELTS; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRIASSIC;

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; FOLDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENIC BELT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOTECTONICS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; SONGPAN-GARZE FOLD BELT; ZOIGE PLATEAU;

EID: 77950458990     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0166-0     Document Type: Article

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