Interstation Pg and Sg differential traveltime tomography in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau: Implications for spatial extent of crustal flow and segmentation of the Longmenshan fault zone

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 227, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-40

  Li, Zhiwei ^a   Ni, Sidao ^a   Roecker, Steven ^b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal flow; Longmenshan fault zone; Minshan uplift; Northeastern Tibetan plateau; Pg and Sg; Traveltime difference tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL FLOW; LONGMENSHAN FAULT ZONE; MINSHAN UPLIFT; NORTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAUX; PG AND SG; TRAVEL-TIME;

VELOCITY;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT ZONE; LOWER CRUST; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME; UPLIFT;

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

EID: 84891938233     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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