Upper mantle structure and dynamics beneath Southeast China

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 182, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 161-169

  Huang, Zhouchuan ^a,b   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Mi, Ning ^a   Yu, Dayong ^a   Li, Hua ^a   Li, Cheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep earthquakes; Late Mesozoic igneous rocks; Southeast China; Subducted Eurasian plate; Teleseismic tomography; Upwelling mantle flow

Indexed keywords

DEEP EARTHQUAKES; EURASIAN PLATES; MANTLE FLOW; MESOZOIC IGNEOUS ROCKS; SOUTHEAST CHINA; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

EARTHQUAKE; EURASIAN PLATE; HEAT FLOW; IGNEOUS ROCK; MAGMA CHAMBER; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; P-WAVE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77956912178     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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