In:
Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 274, No. 5293 ( 1996-12-06), p. 1692-1694
Abstract:
Earthquake data collected by the INDEPTH-II Passive-Source Experiment show that there is a substantial south to north variation in the velocity structure of the crust beneath southern Tibet. North of the Zangbo suture, beneath the southern Lhasa block, a midcrustal low-velocity zone is revealed by inversion of receiver functions, Rayleigh-wave phase velocities, and modeling of the radial component of teleseismic P -waveforms. Conversely, to the south beneath the Tethyan Himalaya, no low-velocity zone was observed. The presence of the midcrustal low-velocity zone in the north implies that a partially molten layer is in the middle crust beneath the northern Yadong-Gulu rift and possibly much of southern Tibet.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0036-8075
,
1095-9203
DOI:
10.1126/science.274.5293.1692
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Publication Date:
1996
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128410-1
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2066996-3
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2060783-0
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11
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