Mantle transition zone topography and structure beneath the central Tien Shan orogenic belt

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b   Zhang, Hongshuang ^a   Tian, You ^c   Zhang, Zhongjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENIC BELT; P-WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

KYRGYZSTAN; LAKE YSYK-KOL; TIEN SHAN; YSYK-KOL;

EID: 78049487242     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006229     Document Type: Article

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