Cross Orogenic Belts in Central China: Implications for the tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the East Asian continental collage

Y Dong, S Sun, M Santosh, B Hui, J Sun, F Zhang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Asian continent records a complex geologic and tectonic history that
involved the amalgamation of several small-to medium-sized blocks from Laurasia or …

Episodic lithospheric deformation in eastern Tibet inferred from seismic anisotropy

X Bao, X Song, DW Eaton, Y Xu… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanisms for uplift and deformation of the Tibetan Plateau remain vigorously debated;
hypotheses include stepwise growth, distributed thickening, and crustal channel flow, each …

Azimuthal seismic anisotropy in the Earth's upper mantle and the thickness of tectonic plates

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev… - … Supplements to the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Azimuthal seismic anisotropy, the dependence of seismic wave speeds on propagation
azimuth, is largely due to fabrics within the Earth's crust and mantle, produced by …

Layered crustal azimuthal anisotropy beneath the northeastern Tibetan Plateau revealed by Rayleigh-wave Eikonal tomography

S Hao, Z Huang, C Han, L Wang, M Xu, N Mi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the Cenozoic has greatly affected the tectonics in Asia.
But the evolution of the plateau is still unclear. The northeastern Tibetan Plateau is under …

[PDF][PDF] Complicated crustal deformation beneath the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau and its adjacent areas revealed by multi-station receiver-function gathering

X Xu, F Niu, Z Ding, Q Chen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - academia.edu
We use a multi-station stacking method to analyze receiver function data recorded by a large-
scale dense seismic array covering the northeastern (NE) margin of the Tibetan plateau and …

Seismic azimuthal anisotropy of northeastern Tibetan Plateau from ambient noise double beamforming tomography: Implications for crustal deformation

X Wu, Z Guo, S Li, Y Yu, Q Bai… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we obtain a three‐dimensional (3‐D) high resolution seismic anisotropy model
of NE Tibet using ambient noise double beamforming (DBF) tomography with ChinArray …

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 …

Low velocity crustal flow and crust–mantle coupling mechanism in Yunnan, SE Tibet, revealed by 3D S-wave velocity and azimuthal anisotropy

H Chen, L Zhu, Y Su - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
We used teleseismic data recorded by a permanent seismic network in Yunnan, SE Tibet,
and measured the interstation Rayleigh wave phase velocity between 10 and 60 s. A two …

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

J Xie, 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 …