Lithospheric structure of the Chinese mainland determined from joint inversion of regional and teleseismic Rayleigh-wave group velocities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Feng, Mei ^a   An, Meijian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; EURASIAN PLATE; INDIAN PLATE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; COLLISION ZONE; DATA INVERSION; JOINT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 77954368134     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005787     Document Type: Article

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