The geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

LH Royden, BC Burchfiel, RD van der Hilst - science, 2008 - science.org
The geological evolution of the Tibetan plateau is best viewed in a context broader than the
India-Eurasia collision zone. After collision about 50 million years ago, crust was shortened …

Surface-wave analysis for building near-surface velocity models—Established approaches and new perspectives

LV Socco, S Foti, D Boiero - Geophysics, 2010 - library.seg.org
Today, surface-wave analysis is widely adopted for building near-surface S-wave velocity
models. The surface-wave method is under continuous and rapid evolution, also thanks to …

Crustal deformation of the eastern Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric imaging

D Bai, MJ Unsworth, MA Meju, X Ma, J Teng… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The ongoing collision of the Indian and Asian continents has created the Himalaya and
Tibetan plateau through a range of deformation processes. These include crustal thickening …

Green's function representations for seismic interferometry

K Wapenaar, J Fokkema - Geophysics, 2006 - library.seg.org
The term seismic interferometry refers to the principle of generating new seismic responses
by crosscorrelating seismic observations at different receiver locations. The first version of …

A seismic reference model for the crust and uppermost mantle beneath China from surface wave dispersion

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller, D Kang, YH Kim… - Geophysical Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Using data from more than 2000 seismic stations from multiple networks arrayed throughout
China (CEArray, China Array, NECESS, PASSCAL, GSN) and surrounding regions (Korean …

A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

BC Burchfiel, LH Royden, RD Van der Hilst, BH Hager… - GSA today, 2008 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
Abstract On 12 May 2008, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured the Longmen Shan margin
of the eastern Tibetan plateau. This event occurred within the context of long-term uplift and …

Eastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau by crustal flow and strain partitioning across faults

QY Liu, RD Van Der Hilst, Y Li, HJ Yao, JH Chen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The lateral expansion of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau causes devastating earthquakes,
but is poorly understood. In particular, the links between regional variations in surface …

The community velocity model V. 1.0 of southwest China, constructed from joint body‐and surface‐wave travel‐time tomography

Y Liu, H Yao, H Zhang, H Fang - … Society of America, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Southwest China, located at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau, plays an
important role for the plateau growth and its material extrusion. It has complicated tectonic …

Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake

J Hubbard, JH Shaw - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Abstract The Longmen Shan mountain range, site of the devastating 12 May 2008
Wenchuan (M= 7.9) earthquake, defines the eastern margin of the Himalayan orogen and …

High-resolution 3D shallow crustal structure in Long Beach, California: Application of ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array

FC Lin, D Li, RW Clayton, D Hollis - Geophysics, 2013 - library.seg.org
Ambient noise tomography has proven to be effective in resolving shallow earth structure.
We applied ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array in Long Beach, California …