Crust and uppermost mantle beneath the North China Craton, northeastern China, and the Sea of Japan from ambient noise tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Zheng, Yong ^a   Shen, Weisen ^b   Zhou, Longquan ^c   Yang, Yingjie ^a,d   Xie, Zujun ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; ISOSTASY; LINEAMENT; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WATER DEPTH;

CHINA; FAR EAST; KOREA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 84855302073     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008637     Document Type: Article

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