Imaging the crustal structure beneath the eastern Tibetan Plateau and implications for the uplift of the Longmen Shan range

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 379, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-80

  Guo, Xiaoyu ^a,b   Gao, Rui ^a   Randy Keller, G ^b   Xu, Xiao ^b   Wang, Haiyan ^a   Li, Wenhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Deep seismic reflection profile; Eastern Tibetan Plateau; Longmen Shan block; Uplift of the Longmen Shan range

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU; LONGMEN SHAN BLOCK; UPLIFT OF THE LONGMEN SHAN RANGE;

FAULTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GPS; IMAGING METHOD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; SEDIMENT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; TERRAIN; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

CHINA; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN;

EID: 84883207412     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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