The boundary between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates below Tibet

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 11229-11233

  Zhao, Junmeng ^a   Yuan, Xiaohui ^b   Liu, Hongbing ^a   Kumar, Prakash ^c   Pei, Shunping ^a   Kind, Rainer ^b,d   Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Teng, Jiwen ^a   Ding, Lin ^a   Gao, Xing ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Receiver functions; Tibetan lithosphere

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; GEOLOGY; INDIA; LITHOSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECTONIC PLATE; ANISOTROPY; ASIA; ASTRONOMY; EARTHQUAKE; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANISOTROPY; ASIA; EARTH (PLANET); EARTHQUAKES; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGY; INDIA; TEMPERATURE; TIBET;

EID: 77954918969     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001921107     Document Type: Article

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