Rayleigh wave tomography of the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 103-112

  Zhang, Qie ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b   Ni, James ^c   Yang, Yingjie ^d   Chen, Yongshun John ^e  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Rayleigh waves; Tibet; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; EURASIA; EXTRUSION TECTONICS; FAULT-SLIP RATES; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LOW-VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; LOWER CRUST; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODELS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASIN; STUDY AREAS; TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VELOCITY PARAMETERS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VERTICALLY COHERENT DEFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; FAULT SLIP; GPS; OROGENY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UPLIFT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; EURASIA; ORDOS BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 79952624553     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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