Regional earthquakes in northern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for lithospheric strength in Tibet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Wei, Songqiao ^a   Chen, Y John ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b   Zhou, Shiyong ^a   Yue, Han ^a   Jin, Ge ^a   Hearn, Thomas M ^c   Jiang, Mingming ^a   Wang, Haiyang ^a   Fan, Wenyuan ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Ge, Zengxi ^a   Wang, Yanbin ^a   Feng, Yongge ^a   Ni, James ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

DEPTH RANGE; LITHOSPHERIC; LOWER CRUST; QIANGTANG; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

EARTHQUAKES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC ZONE; SUBDUCTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77958470199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044800     Document Type: Article

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