Distinct lateral contrast of the crustal and upper mantle structure beneath northeast Tibetan plateau from receiver function analysis

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 217, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Xu, Qiang ^a,b   Zhao, Junmeng ^a   Pei, Shunping ^a   Liu, Hongbing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; Mantle transition zone; Northeast Tibetan Plateau; Poisson's ratio; Receiver functions

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; POISSON'S RATIO; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

POISSON RATIO;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MOHO; POISSON RATIO; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

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

EID: 84873943745     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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