Study of crustal thickness and Poisson ratio of the North China Craton

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2538-2548

  Ge, Can ^a,b   Zheng, Yong ^a   Xiong, Xiong ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; North China Craton; Poisson ratio; Receiver functions

Indexed keywords

CRATON; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ISOSTASY; POISSON RATIO; SEISMOGRAM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA;

EID: 81855216253     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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