Large contrasts in crustal structure and composition between the Ordos plateau and the NE Tibetan plateau from receiver function analysis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 291-298

  Pan, Suzhen ^a,b   Niu, Fenglin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Low crustal flow; Ordos plateau; Receiver function; Tibetan plateau; Vp Vs ratio

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL FLOW; ORDOS PLATEAU; RECEIVER FUNCTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VP/VS RATIO;

TECTONICS;

POISSON RATIO;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; ORDOS PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79952105669     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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