Crust and upper mantle structure of the North China Craton and the NE Tibetan Plateau and its tectonic implications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 369-370, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-137

  Bao, Xuewei ^a   Song, Xiaodong ^a,b   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Wang, Liangshu ^a   Sun, Xiaoxiao ^a   Mi, Ning ^a   Yu, Dayong ^a   Li, Hua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise tomography; Lithospheric structure; North China Craton; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHIES; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NE TIBETAN PLATEAUX; NORTH CHINA CRATON; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; ASTHENOSPHERE; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84878198565     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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