Uppermost mantle structure of the North China Craton: Constraints from interstation Pn travel time difference tomography

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1691-1698

  Li, ZhiWei ^a,b   Hao, TianYao ^a   Xu, Ya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Cratonic destruction; Lithospheric thinning; North China Craton; Pn travel time difference; Uppermost mantle

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956321251     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4487-y     Document Type: Article

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