Upper- and mid-crustal radial anisotropy beneath the central Himalaya and southern Tibet from seismic ambient noise tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1169-1182

  Guo, Zhi ^a   Gao, Xing ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Yao, Zhenxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Interferometry; Rheology: crust and lithosphere; Seismic anisotropy; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHIES; ANISOTROPIC LAYERS; BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; FLOW INDUCED ALIGNMENT; FREE OSCILLATION; HIMALAYAS; LOVE WAVE; LOW VISCOSITY; MINERAL GRAINS; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RAY PATHS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN TIBET; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOMECHANICAL MODEL; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; INTERFEROMETRY; MICA; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY;

AMBIENT NOISE; ANISOTROPY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPPER CRUST;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

MICAS;

EID: 84862784218     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05425.x     Document Type: Article

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