No mafic layer in 80 km thick Tibetan crust
Crustal doubling in Tibet and the Himalayas by underthrusting of the Indian plate is thought to require the presence of a mafic layer above the Moho. Here, the authors present seismic data which shows that the middle Lhasa Terrane has very low velocity (V p < 6.7 km/s) throughout the 80 km thick...
Main Authors: | Gaochun Wang, Hans Thybo, Irina M. Artemieva |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-02-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21420-z |
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