Crustal thickness and average Vp/Vs ratio variations in southwest Yunnan, China, from teleseismic receiver functions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Pan ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Mi, Ning ^a   Liu, Jianhua ^b   Li, Hua ^a   Yu, Dayong ^a   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Wang, Xingchen ^a   Guo, Zhiwei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; S-WAVE; STACKING; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

AILAO SHAN-RED RIVER SHEAR ZONE; CHINA; SIMAO BASIN; YUNNAN;

EID: 78649508766     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006651     Document Type: Article

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