Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Yue, Han ^a   John Chen, Y ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^b   Ni, James ^c   Hearn, Thomas ^c   Zhou, Shiyong ^a   Feng, Yongge ^a   Ge, Zengxi ^a   Trujillo, Andrea ^c   Wang, Yanbin ^a   Jin, Ge ^a   Jiang, Mingming ^a   Tang, Youcai ^a   Liang, Xiaofeng ^a   Wei, Songqiao ^a   Wang, Haiyang ^a   Fan, Wenyuan ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; SEISMOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

BANGONG CO-NUJIANG SUTURE ZONE; CHINA; JINSHA RIVER; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84861453377     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008545     Document Type: Article

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