Segmental nature of the Red River fault revealed by seismic anisotropy and geological structures

Y Li, Y Gao - Science China Earth Sciences, 2024 - Springer
As the western boundary of the Sichuan-Yunnan block (SYB), the Red River fault (RRF) is a
major fault that controls deep crustal movement and deformation in the southeast margin of …

Rheology of continental lithosphere and seismic anisotropy

S Sun, Y Dong, Y Li, Y Yang, C Cheng, B Hui… - Science China Earth …, 2024 - Springer
Rheology of rocks controls the deformation of the Earth at various space-time scales, which
is crucial to understand the tectonic evolution of continental lithosphere. Researches of rock …

Southern Tibetan rifting since late Miocene enabled by basal shear of the underthrusting Indian lithosphere

B Zhang, X Bao, Y Wu, Y Xu, W Yang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Syncontractional extension is prominent in present-day Tibet, but its origin remains
vigorously debated. Several deep-seated geodynamic processes (eg, Indian underthrusting …

Crustal azimuthal anisotropy beneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its geodynamic implications

T Zheng, Z Ding, J Ning, L Chang… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The fast orientation and magnitude of crustal azimuthal anisotropy beneath the southeastern
Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas are measured by analyzing the sinusoidal moveout of …

Characteristics of deep crustal seismic anisotropy from a compilation of rock elasticity tensors and their expression in receiver functions

SJ Brownlee, V Schulte‐Pelkum, A Raju, K Mahan… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rocks in the continental crust are long lived and have the potential to record a wide span of
tectonic history in rock fabric. Map** rock fabric in situ at depth requires the application of …

Insight into NE Tibetan Plateau expansion from crustal and upper mantle anisotropy revealed by shear-wave splitting

Z Huang, F Tilmann, M Xu, L Wang, Z Ding, N Mi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
The northeastern Tibetan plateau margin is the current expansion border, where growth of
the plateau is ongoing. We analyze shear-wave splitting at ChinArray stations in the NE …

3‐D crustal azimuthal anisotropy reveals multi‐stage deformation processes of the Sichuan basin and its adjacent area, SW China

Z Zhang, H Yao, W Wang, C Liu - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The collision of the South China Block and the North China Block and the eastward
extrusion of the Tibetan Plateau materials have caused complicated tectonic deformation …

Crustal anisotropy across eastern Tibet and surroundings modeled as a depth-dependent tilted hexagonally symmetric medium

J **e, MH Ritzwoller, W Shen… - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Two types of surface wave anisotropy are observed regularly by seismologists but are only
rarely interpreted jointly: apparent radial anisotropy, which is the difference in propagation …

3-D azimuthal anisotropy structure reveals different deformation modes of the crust and upper mantle in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Z Zhang, J Feng, H Yao - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The tectonic evolution and deformation process of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau has
been one of the focuses of the geoscience community in recent decades. However, the …

The 3D seismic azimuthal anisotropies and velocities in the eastern Tibetan plateau extracted by an azimuth‐dependent dispersion curve inversion method

C Liang, Z Liu, Q Hua, L Wang, N Jiang, J Wu - Tectonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An azimuth‐dependent dispersion curve inversion (ADDCI) method is applied to Rayleigh
waves to extract 3D velocity and azimuthal anisotropy. The synthetic tests show that the …