Geochemistry of soil gas in the seismic fault zone produced by the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake, southwestern China

Geochemical Transactions

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhou, Xiaocheng ^a,b   Du, Jianguo ^b   Chen, Zhi ^b   Cheng, Jianwu ^c   Tang, Yi ^b   Yang, Liming ^c   Xie, Chao ^b   Cui, Yueju ^b   Liu, Lei ^b   Yi, Li ^b   Yang, Panxin ^b   Li, Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Earthquake Administration of Gansu Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHEMISTRY; SEISMIC ZONE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SOIL GAS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS FIELD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA;

EID: 78649707677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14674866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1467-4866-11-5     Document Type: Article

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