Structure of crust and upper mantle beneath the Ordos Block and the Yinshan Mountains revealed by receiver function analysis

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 186-193

  Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Teng, Jiwen ^a   Zhang, Hongshuang ^a   Zhang, Zhongjie ^a   Zhang, Yongqian ^a   Yang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Keke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crust and upper mantle; Hetao graben; Lower crustal ductile flows; Mantle transition zone; Ordos block; Receiver function; Yinshan mountains

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DUCTILE FLOW; HETAO GRABEN; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; ORDOS BLOCK; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; UPPER MANTLE; YINSHAN MOUNTAINS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BROADBAND DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; HETAO BASIN; NEI MONGGOL; ORDOS BASIN; YINSHAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79952737463     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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