Crustal Structure of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau from the Southern Tarim Basin to the Sichuan Basin, China

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 191-208

  Wang, Youxue ^a,b   Mooney, Walter D ^b   Yuan, Xuecheng ^c   Okaya, Nihal ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal composition; P and S wave velocity structure; Poisson's ratio; Qaidam basin; Tibet Plateau; Vp Vs ratio

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL COMPOSITION; POISSON'S RATIO; QAIDAM BASIN; S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TIBET PLATEAU; VP/VS RATIO;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LOWER CRUST; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QAIDAM BASIN; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SONGPAN-GANZI BASIN; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84872372693     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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