Crustal and uppermost mantle velocity structure along a profile across the Pamir and southern Tien Shan as derived from project TIPAGE wide-angle seismic data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 385-407

  Mechie, J ^a   Yuan, X ^a   Schurr, B ^a   Schneider, F ^a   Sippl, C ^a   Ratschbacher, L ^b   Minaev, V ^c   Gadoev, M ^c   Oimahmadov, I ^c   Abdybachaev, U ^d   Moldobekov, B ^d   Orunbaev, S ^d   Negmatullaev, S ^e  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tadzhikistan   (Tajikistan)

^d Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

^e PMP International   (Tajikistan)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental tectonics: compressional; Crustal structure

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EARTH'S SURFACE; IN-LINE; LEADING EDGE; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; METAPELITES; OROGENIC BELTS; P-VELOCITY; POISSON'S RATIO; QIANGTANG TERRANE; REFLECTION DATA; S VELOCITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC ZONES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; UPPERMOST MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

GEODYNAMICS; POISSON RATIO; QUARTZ; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EARTHQUAKE; ECLOGITE; GNEISS; GRANULITE FACIES; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METAPELITE; OROGENIC BELT; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SCHIST; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC ZONE; TECTONICS; TERRANE; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CHINA; KARAKUL LAKE; LHASA; PAMIRS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TAJIKISTAN; TIEN SHAN; XIZANG;

EID: 84855431561     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05278.x     Document Type: Article

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