Crustal shear (S) velocity and Poisson's ratio structure along the INDEPTH IV profile in northeast Tibet as derived from wide-angle seismic data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 369-384

  Mechie, J ^a   Zhao, W ^b   Karplus, M S ^c   Wu, Z ^b   Meissner, R ^d   Shi, D ^b   Klemperer, S L ^c   Su, H ^b   Kind, R ^a,e   Xue, G ^b   Brown, L D ^f  

^a Sections Geophysical Deep Sounding and Seismology ^*  (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental tectonics: compressional; Crustal structure

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CENOZOIC; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRANULITE FACIES; LOWER AVERAGE; LOWER CRUST; MESOZOIC; METAPELITES; NEW HIGH; OROGENIC CYCLES; P-VELOCITY; PALAEOZOIC; POISSON'S RATIO; QAIDAM BASIN; S VELOCITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SICHUAN BASIN; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER CRUST;

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; POISSON RATIO; QUARTZ; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY;

TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FELSIC ROCK; GRANULITE FACIES; LOWER CRUST; METAPELITE; MOHO; OROGENY; P-WAVE; PLATEAU; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONICS; TERRANE; THRUST;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 84867372722     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05616.x     Document Type: Article

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