Upper-mantle tomography and dynamics beneath the North China Craton

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lei, Jianshe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; ASTHENOSPHERE; FAULT ZONE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84862873012     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009212     Document Type: Article

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