Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps of Tibet and the surrounding regions from ambient seismic noise tomography

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Yingjie ^a,b   Zheng, Yong ^b   Chen, John ^c   Zhou, Shiyong ^c   Celyan, Savas ^d   Sandvol, Eric ^d   Tilmann, Frederik ^e,f   Priestley, Keith ^e   Hearn, Thomas M ^g   Ni, James F ^g   Brown, Larry D ^h   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^g New Mexico State University   (United States)

^h Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Rayleigh wave; Tibet; tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DISPERSION (WAVES); LITHOLOGY; PHASE VELOCITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; DATA RESOURCES; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; HIGH ELEVATION; HIGH VELOCITY; LATERAL RESOLUTION; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC STUDIES; SHEAR VELOCITY MODELS; SHORT PERIODS; SICHUAN BASIN; SOUTHERN TIBET; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TARIM BASIN; TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMBIENT NOISE; MAP; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77955531454     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003119     Document Type: Article

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