Publication Date:
2004-07-13
Description:
Intermediate-period Rayleigh and Love waves propagating across Tibet indicate marked radial anisotropy within the middle-to-lower crust, consistent with a thinning of the middle crust by about 30%. The anisotropy is largest in the western part of the plateau, where moment tensors of earthquakes indicate active crustal thinning. The preferred orientation of mica crystals resulting from the crustal thinning can account for the observed anisotropy. The middle-to-lower crust of Tibet appears to have thinned more than the upper crust, consistent with deformation of a mechanically weak layer that flows as if confined to a channel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shapiro, Nikolai M -- Ritzwoller, Michael H -- Molnar, Peter -- Levin, Vadim -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jul 9;305(5681):233-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. nshapiro@ciei.colorado.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15247475" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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