Pn-wave velocity and anisotropy of the western Sichuan and Longmen Mountain region, China

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1665-1670

  Xu, Yi ^a   Li, ZhiWei ^a   Huang, RunQiu ^b   Liu, JianHua ^a   Liu, JinSong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Longmen mountain; Pn velocity; Wenchuan earthquake; Western sichuan

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LONGMEN MOUNTAIN; STRONG HETEROGENEITIES; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WESTERN SICHUAN;

FAULTING;

EID: 84885906145     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-010-3074-4     Document Type: Article

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