Seismic Studies of the East African Rift System and the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the Rheology of Lithosphere and the Evolution of Rifts in Continents

Additional evidence for this conclusion comes from my study of eleven intracontinental earthquakes, with magnitudes ranging from 4.9 to 6, which occurred in the mantle beneath the western Himalayan syntaxis, the western Kunlun Mountains, and southern Tibet (near Xigaze). High-resolution seismic waveforms show that some focal depths exceeded 100 km, indicating that these earthquakes also occurred in the mantle lithosphere, even though the crust has been greatly thickened.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Yang, Zhaohui

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chen, Wang-Ping

• Geology

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3363121

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86542