Tibetan plate overriding the Asian plate in central and northern Tibet

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 870-873

  Zhao, Wenjin ^a   Kumar, Prakash ^b,c   Mechie, James ^b   Kind, Rainer ^b,d   Meissner, Rolf ^e   Wu, Zhenhan ^a   Shi, Danian ^a   Su, Heping ^a   Xue, Guangqi ^a   Karplus, Marianne ^f   Tilmann, Frederik ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVERGENCE; DATA QUALITY; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 82455212634     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1309     Document Type: Article

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