Seismic properties and anisotropy of the continental crust: Predictions based on mineral texture and rock microstructure

BSG Almqvist, D Mainprice - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Progress in seismic methodology and ambitious large‐scale seismic projects are enabling
high‐resolution imaging of the continental crust. The ability to constrain interpretations of …

Crustal anisotropy and ductile flow beneath the eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent areas

F Kong, J Wu, KH Liu, SS Gao - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Crustal anisotropy beneath 71 broadband seismic stations situated at the eastern Tibetan
Plateau and the Sichuan Basin is investigated based on the sinusoidal moveout of P-to-S …

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 …

A Generalized H‐κ Method With Harmonic Corrections on Ps and Its Crustal Multiples in Receiver Functions

J Li, X Song, P Wang, L Zhu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The H‐κ method (Zhu & Kanamori, 2000, https://doi. org/10.1029/1999JB900322) has been
widely used to estimate the crustal thickness (H) and the ratio of P to S velocities (VP/VS …

Complex seismic anisotropy beneath western Tibet and its geodynamic implications

J Wu, Z Zhang, F Kong, BB Yang, Y Yu, KH Liu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Shear wave splitting parameters obtained along a linear array of 23 stations deployed in
western Tibet during a two-year period from 2011 to 2013 demonstrate strong and …

Comprehensive crustal structure and seismological evidence for lower crustal flow in the southeastern margin of Tibet revealed by receiver functions

J Hu, J Badal, H Yang, G Li, H Peng - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The lower crustal flow model has become an interesting proposal to describe the growth and
expansion of eastern Tibet. To date, however, the geophysical results are not definitive due …

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 …

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 …

Azimuthal anisotropy and mantle flow underneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and northern Indochina Peninsula revealed by shear wave splitting analyses

F Kong, J Wu, L Liu, KH Liu, J Song, J Li, SS Gao - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Seismic azimuthal anisotropy beneath the transitional region between the southeastern
Tibetan Plateau and the Indochina Peninsula, an area in which the fast orientation of mantle …