A reinvestigation of crustal thickness in the Tibetan Plateau using absolute gravity, GPS and GRACE data

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-119

  Sun, Wenke ^a,b   Wang, Qi ^c   Li, Hui ^c   Wang, Yong ^d   Okubo, Shuhei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; Gps measurement; Gravity change; Mass loss; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GPS; GRACE; GRAVITY SURVEY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

CHINA; DALI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YUNNAN;

EID: 79955519567     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2010.06.07.01(TibXS)     Document Type: Article

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