Details of the doublet Moho structure beneath Lhasa, Tibet, obtained by comparison of P and S receiver functions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1259-1269

  Li, Xueqing ^a   Wei, Dongping ^b   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Kind, Rainer ^a,d   Kumar, Prakash ^c   Zhou, Huilan ^b  

^a Zentrum Telegrafenberg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DOUBLE NORMAL; INDIAN PLATE; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LHASA TERRANE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MOHO DEPTH; MOHO TOPOGRAPHY; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TIBETAN CRUST; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER MANTLE;

TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; INDIAN PLATE; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 79957961394     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100163     Document Type: Article

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