Seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle in Ningxia region

Acta Seismologica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 507-516

  Ma, Heqing ^a,b   Ding, Zhifeng ^a   Chang, Lijun ^a   Gao, Wuping ^c   Cai, Xinhua ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Administration of Ningjia Hui Autonomous Region   (China)

^c Earthquake Administration of Fianjin City   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Coupled; Ningxia region; The northeast edge of Qingzang Plateau; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CHINA; NINGXIA HUIZU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79953085683     PISSN: 02533782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-3782.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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