The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath South China from ambient noise and earthquake tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1565-1583

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

^a CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Surface waves and free oscillations; Seismic tomography; Crustal structure; Asia

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; ARCHEAN; DISPERSION MAP; EIKONAL; FLAT SLABS; FREE OSCILLATION; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MESOZOIC; MONTE CARLO; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SOUTH CHINA; TIME FRAME; UPPER MANTLE; UPPERMOST MANTLE; YANGTZE BLOCK;

EARTHQUAKES; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOLD BELT; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; SURFACE WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84860840180     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05423.x     Document Type: Article

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