Lithospheric structure of the Ordos Block and its boundary areas inferred from Rayleigh wave dispersion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 499, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 132-141

  Bao, Xuewei ^a   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Mi, Ning ^a   Yu, Dayong ^a   Li, Hua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lithospheric structure; Ordos Block; Rayleigh wave dispersion; Weihe rift

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE MECHANISMS; CENOZOIC; DEEP STRUCTURE; FAR-FIELD EFFECT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH VELOCITY; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOW VELOCITIES; ORDOS BLOCK; PARTIAL MELT; RAYLEIGH WAVE DISPERSION; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; SUBSOLIDUS; SUBSTANTIAL VARIATIONS; TECTONIC REGIONS; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; WEAKENING EFFECT; WEIHE RIFT; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

DISPERSION (WAVES); IGNEOUS ROCKS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE SPLITTING;

CHINA; ORDOS BASIN; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79952003455     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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