Upper mantle P-wave tomography across the Longmenshan fault belt from passive-source seismic observations along Aba-Longquanshan profile

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 873-882

  Bai, Zhiming ^a   Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Tian, You ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Longmenshan fault belt; Traveltime tomography; Upper mantle; Velocity anomaly; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; GEODYNAMICS; P-WAVE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79551523669     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.04.036     Document Type: Article

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