Seismic tomography: A window into deep Earth

N Rawlinson, S Pozgay, S Fishwick - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in seismic
tomography, and trace its origins from pioneering work in the early 1970s to its present …

Seismic imaging: From classical to adjoint tomography

Q Liu, YJ Gu - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Seismic tomography has been a vital tool in probing the Earth's internal structure and
enhancing our knowledge of dynamical processes in the Earth's crust and mantle. While …

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 …

Seismic structure of the upper mantle beneath eastern Asia from full waveform seismic tomography

K Tao, SP Grand, F Niu - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To better understand the subsurface behavior of subducting slabs and their relation to the
tectonic evolution of the overriding plate, we conduct a full waveform inversion on a large …

High-resolution lithospheric structure beneath Mainland China from ambient noise and earthquake surface-wave tomography

X Bao, X Song, J Li - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a new high-resolution shear-velocity model of the lithosphere (down to about
160 km) beneath China using Rayleigh-wave tomography. We combined ambient noise and …

A synoptic view of the distribution and connectivity of the mid‐crustal low velocity zone beneath Tibet

Y Yang, MH Ritzwoller, Y Zheng… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Based on 1–2 years of continuous observations of seismic ambient noise data obtained at
more than 600 stations in and around Tibet, Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps are …

High‐resolution lithospheric velocity structure of continental China by double‐difference seismic travel‐time tomography

H **n, H Zhang, M Kang, R He… - Seismological …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
To determine high‐resolution VP and VS models of the lithosphere of continental China, we
assembled numerous high‐quality arrival‐time data from 11,953 earthquakes recorded by …

The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath South China from ambient noise and earthquake tomography

L Zhou, J **e, W Shen, Y Zheng, Y Yang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Two years of continuous recordings of ambient seismic noise observed at 354 stations in
South China from 2009 to 2010 are used to estimate Rayleigh wave group and phase …

Crustal radial anisotropy across eastern Tibet and the western Yangtze craton

J **e, MH Ritzwoller, W Shen, Y Yang… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Phase velocities across eastern Tibet and surrounding regions are mapped using Rayleigh
(8–65 s) and Love (8–44 s) wave ambient noise tomography based on data from more than …

Analysis of ambient noise energy distribution and phase velocity bias in ambient noise tomography, with application to SE Tibet

H Yao, RD Van Der Hilst - Geophysical Journal International, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Green's functions (GFs) of surface wave propagation between two receivers can be
estimated from the cross-correlation of ambient noise under the assumption of diffuse …