Crustal and uppermost mantle velocity structure beneath northwestern China from seismic ambient noise tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-143

  Li, Hongyi ^a,b   Li, S ^c   Song, X D ^d   Gong, M ^b   Li, X ^b   Jia, J ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ANALYSIS METHOD; CONTINUOUS DATA; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GROUP VELOCITIES; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION CURVE; HIGH VELOCITY; KAZAKHSTAN; KUNLUN FAULT; KYRGYZSTAN; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LATERAL VELOCITIES; LOVE WAVE; LOVE WAVE DISPERSION; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; NORTHERN TARIM BASIN; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; RAYLEIGH; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC STATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TARIM BASIN; THREE-COMPONENT; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS; UPPER CRUST; UPPERMOST MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT VELOCITY; MATCHED FILTERS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; LOVE WAVE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SUTURE ZONE; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

SINIA;

EID: 84155171086     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05205.x     Document Type: Article

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