Crustal structure beneath South China revealed by deep seismic soundings and its dynamics implications

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2560-2574

  Deng, Yang Fan ^a,b   Li, Shou Lin ^b,c   Fan, Wei Ming ^a   Liu, Jia ^b,c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

3 D velocity structure; Deep seismic sounding; Moho; Pn velocity; South China

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; KRIGING; SEISMIC NOISE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY;

CHINA; EURASIA;

EID: 81855216252     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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