Crustal radial anisotropy across eastern Tibet and the Western Yangtze Craton

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4226-4252

  Xie, Jiayi ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Shen, Weisen ^a   Yang, Yingjie ^b   Zheng, Yong ^c   Zhou, Longquan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d CHINA EARTHQUAKE NETWORKS CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

ambient seismic noise; E Tibet; radial anisotropy; surface wave; tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LOVE WAVE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PHASE VELOCITY; PLATEAU; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHINA; XIZANG; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

MICAS;

EID: 84885132596     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50296     Document Type: Article

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