No direct correlation of mantle flow beneath the North China Craton to the India-Eurasia collision: Constraints from newSKSwave splitting measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1027-1037

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Zheng, Tianyu ^a   Lu, Gang ^a   Ai, Yinshuang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Mantle processes; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY PATTERNS; ASIA; BROAD BANDS; CENOZOIC TECTONICS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EASTERN CHINA; HORIZONTAL DEFLECTION; KUNLUN FAULT; LARGE DELAY TIME; LONG RANGE EFFECTS; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE PROCESSES; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; NORTH CHINA CRATON; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; SYMMETRY AXIS; TELESEISMIC SHEAR WAVES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER MANTLE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TECTONICS;

BODY WAVE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFLECTION; DEFORMATION; MANTLE PROCESS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SYMMETRY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CHINA; EURASIA; INDIA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 80054690587     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05201.x     Document Type: Article

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