The crustal structures of the central Longmenshan along and its margins as related to the seismotectonics of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 777-790

  Jia, ShiXu ^a   Liu, BaoJin ^a   Xu, ZhaoFan ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Feng, ShaoYing ^a   Zhang, JianShi ^a   Lin, JieYan ^a   Tian, XiaoFeng ^a   Liu, QiaoXia ^a   Guo, WenBin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

brittle ductile transition; central Longmenshan; crustal structure; crustal uplift; deep seismic sounding; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION; CENTRAL LONGMENSHAN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL UPLIFT; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

FAULTING;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; OROGENIC BELT; P-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; UPLIFT;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN; SICHUAN BASIN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 84897571381     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4744-9     Document Type: Article

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