Gravity data inversion for the lithospheric density structure beneath North China Craton from EGM 2008 model

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 189, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 9-26

  Li, Yuanyuan ^a   Yang, Yushan ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

3D gravity data inversion; EGM08 model; Lithosphere; North China Craton

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER GRAVITY ANOMALIES; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DENSITY IMAGES; DENSITY INVERSION; DENSITY MODELS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; EVOLUTION HISTORY; GRAVITY DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; INVERSION PROBLEMS; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LINEAR PROFILES; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONUNIQUENESS; NORTH CHINA CRATON; OCCAM'S INVERSION; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT; RIFT SYSTEMS; TECTONIC BELTS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; WEIGHTED FUNCTION;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; GRAVITATION; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; GRAVITY SURVEY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHANEROZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; ORDOS BASIN;

EID: 80053620162     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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