Ambient noise Love wave tomography in the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau

Tectonophysics

Volumn 491, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 194-204

  Li, Hongyi ^a,b   Su, Wei ^c   Wang, Chun Yong ^c   Huang, Zhongxian ^c   Lv, Zhiyong ^d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d EARTHQUAKE ADMINISTRATION OF SICHUAN PROVINCE   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient noise tomography; Crustal structure; Eastern Tibet; Love waves

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS METHOD; BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVEFORMS; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION CURVES; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; GROUP-VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHY; LOVE WAVE; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; LOWER CRUST; NONUNIQUENESS; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH-WAVE DISPERSION; SH WAVE; SURFACE FEATURE; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WESTERN SICHUAN;

LIGHT VELOCITY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77955429226     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.018     Document Type: Article

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