Seismic signature of the collision between the east Tibetan escape flow and the Sichuan Basin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 254-264

  Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Yuan, Xiaohui ^b   Chen, Yun ^a   Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Kind, Rainer ^b,c   Li, Xueqing ^b   Teng, Jiwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

East Tibetan escape flow; Mantle transition zone; Receiver function imaging; Sichuan Basin

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; COLLISION ZONE; DEEP STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; INDIAN PLATE; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC PROFILES; SEISMIC SIGNATURES; SICHUAN BASIN; SOUTHERN TIBET; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY; STRONG INTERACTION; TIBETANS; YANGTZE BLOCK;

SEISMOLOGY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ASTHENOSPHERE; COLLISION ZONE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DELAMINATION; GPS; INDIAN PLATE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN BASIN; XIZANG; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 77950533554     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.046     Document Type: Article

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