Intracontinental subduction and Palaeozo
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G. Poupinet; J.-Ph. Avouac; M. Jiang; S. Wei; E. Kissling; G. Herquel; J.
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Teleseismic tomography across the Chinese Tien Shan shows that seismic wave speeds in the lithosphere beneath central Tien Shan are high and therefore the lithosphere is not weaker than that beneath the adjacent undeformed Tarim and Junggar basins. There is evidence for significant velocity contrast