Mantle anisotropy across the southwestern boundary of the Ordos block, North China

Earthquake Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 549-553

  Tang, Yongcai ^a   Chen, Yongshun John ^a   Fu, Yuanyuan V ^a   Wang, Haiyang ^a   Zhou, Shiyong ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b   Ning, Jieyuan ^a   Feng, Yongge ^a   Liu, Mian ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

mantle anisotropy; Ordos; shear wave splitting; Weihe graben

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251580246     PISSN: 16744519     EISSN: 18678777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-010-0754-2     Document Type: Article

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