Shear wave tomography of China using joint inversion of body and surface wave constraints

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Obrebski, Mathias ^a,b   Allen, Richard M ^a   Zhang, Fengxue ^c   Pan, Jiatie ^c   Wu, Qingju ^c   Hung, Shu Huei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; LOWER MANTLE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRANSITION ZONE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84863012435     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008349     Document Type: Article

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