The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary revealed by S-receiver functions from the Hi-CLIMB experiment

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 414-420

  Xu, Qiang ^a,b   Zhao, Junmeng ^a   Pei, Shunping ^a   Liu, Hongbing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BANGONG-NUJIANG SUTURE; BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HIMALAYAS; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MOHO DEPTH; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERE; MOHO; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE; XIZANG;

EID: 80052966506     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05154.x     Document Type: Article

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