Crustal structure of the northwestern sub-basin, South China Sea: Results from a wide-angle seismic experiment

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-172

  Wu, Zhen Li ^a,b,c   Li, Jia Biao ^c   Ruan, Ai Guo ^c   Lou, Hai ^d   Ding, Wei Wei ^c   Niu, Xiong Wei ^c   Li, Xi Bing ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

crustal structure; South China Sea; tectonic evolution; wide angle seismic

Indexed keywords

AIR GUNS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE; HIGH VELOCITY; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LAYER 1; LAYER 2; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA FLOW; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; OBS DATA; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEANIC CRUST; PURE SHEAR; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SEISMIC SIGNALS; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SUBBASINS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THINNER LAYERS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WIDE-ANGLE SEISMIC; WIDE-ANGLE SEISMIC EXPERIMENTS;

SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SURVEYS; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84855552896     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4324-9     Document Type: Article

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