Lithosphere structure and thickness beneath the north china craton from joint inversion of ambient noise and surface wave tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2333-2346

  Tang, Youcai ^a   Chen, Y John ^a   Zhou, Shiyong ^a   Ning, Jieyuan ^a   Ding, Zhifeng ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84894471989     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50191     Document Type: Article

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