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Seismic receiver functions and the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary by Kind, Rainer, Yuan, Xiaohui, Kumar, Prakash

“…The lower boundary of the lithospheric plates has remained as an enigmatic boundary for seismologists, since it is relatively poorly observed by seismic means…”
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Seismic Images of the Biggest Crash on Earth by Kind, Rainer, Yuan, Xiaohui

“…Several large seismic experiments are providing a large-scale and detailed picture of the Indian tectonic plate diving underneath Tibet. In plate tectonics,…”
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Imaging the colliding Indian and Asian lithospheric plates beneath Tibet by Kumar, Prakash, Yuan, Xiaohui, Kind, Rainer, Ni, James

“…A high‐resolution image of the base of the lithosphere from S‐to‐P converted seismic waves revealed the collision architecture of the Indian and Asian…”
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The Mohorovičić discontinuity beneath the continental crust: An overview of seismic constraints by Carbonell, Ramon, Levander, Alan, Kind, Rainer

“…The seismic signature of the Moho from which geologic and tectonic evolution hypotheses are derived is to a large degree a result of the seismic methodology…”
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boundary between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates below Tibet by Zhao, Junmeng, Yuan, Xiaohui, Liu, Hongbing, Kumar, Prakash, Pei, Shunping, Kind, Rainer, Zhang, Zhongjie, Teng, Jiwen, Ding, Lin, Gao, Xing, Xu, Qiang, Wang, Wei

“…The fate of the colliding Indian and Asian tectonic plates below the Tibetan high plateau may be visualized by, in addition to seismic tomography, mapping the…”
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Tibetan plate overriding the Asian plate in central and northern Tibet by Zhao, Wenjin, Kumar, Prakash, Mechie, James, Kind, Rainer, Meissner, Rolf, Wu, Zhenhan, Shi, Danian, Su, Heping, Xue, Guangqi, Karplus, Marianne, Tilmann, Frederik

“…At the southern boundary between India and Tibet, the Indian tectonic plate subducts northwards beneath the Tibetan Plateau. Seismic imaging shows that at the…”
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The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate by KUMAR, Prakash, XIAOHUI YUAN, RAVI KUMAR, M, KIND, Rainer, XUEQING LI, CHADHA, R. K

“…The breakup of the supercontinent Gondwanaland into Africa, Antarctica, Australia and India about 140 million years ago, and consequently the opening of the…”
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The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the western United States by Li, Xueqing, Yuan, Xiaohui, Kind, Rainer

“…S receiver functions from 67 broad-band seismic stations in the western United States clearly reveal the existence of a mantle discontinuity with velocity…”
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A 3D shear-wave velocity model of the upper mantle beneath China and the surrounding areas by Pandey, Shantanu, Yuan, Xiaohui, Debayle, Eric, Priestley, Keith, Kind, Rainer, Tilmann, Frederik, Li, Xueqing

“…We present a three-dimensional model of shear wave velocity for the upper mantle of China and the surrounding region by analyzing 50,338 vertical component…”
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Rejuvenation of the lithosphere by the Hawaiian plume by Kind, Rainer, Li, Xueqing, Yuan, Xiaohui, Wölbern, Ingo, Hanka, Winfried

“…The volcanism responsible for creating the chain of the Hawaiian islands and seamounts is believed to mark the passage of the oceanic lithosphere over a mantle…”
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Upper mantle and lithospheric heterogeneities in central and eastern Europe as observed by teleseismic receiver functions by Geissler, Wolfram H., Kind, Rainer, Yuan, Xiaohui

“…Data from 90 permanent broad-band stations spread over central and eastern Europe were analysed using Ps receiver functions to study the crustal and…”
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Lithosphere structure of the NE Bohemian Massif (Sudetes) — A teleseismic receiver function study by Geissler, Wolfram H., Kämpf, Horst, Skácelová, Zuzana, Plomerová, Jaroslava, Babuška, Vladislav, Kind, Rainer

“…In 2004 and 2005 a passive seismic experiment was carried out in the northern and northeastern part of the Bohemian Massif (Sudetes) to study the lithospheric…”
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Study of the lithospheric and upper-mantle discontinuities beneath eastern Asia by SS precursors by Heit, Benjamin, Yuan, Xiaohui, Bianchi, Marcelo, Kind, Rainer, Gossler, Jürgen

“…We analyse broad-band SS waveform data recorded by several networks in Europe with sources mainly in the west Pacific to study the underside reflections of…”
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Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of southern Tibet from a seismological passive source experiment by Yuan, Xiaohui, Ni, James, Kind, Rainer, Mechie, James, Sandvol, Eric

“…Fifteen seismic stations were operated with about 20‐km spacing in southern Tibet across the Zangbo suture (the collision zone between India and Asia) between…”
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Seismic structure and location of a CO2 source in the upper mantle of the western Eger (Ohře) Rift, central Europe by Wolfram H. Geissler, Horst Kämpf, Rainer Kind, Karin Bräuer, Klaus Klinge, Thomas Plenefisch, Josef Horálek, Jan Zedník, Vladimir Nehybka

“…P‐SV conversions provide new insights into the lithosphere of the western Eger (Ohře) Rift, a presently active CO2 emanation area, Quaternary volcanic field,…”
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Seismic polarization anisotropy beneath the central Tibetan Plateau by Huang, Wei‐Chuang, Ni, James F., Tilmann, Frederik, Nelson, Doug, Guo, Jingru, Zhao, Wenjin, Mechie, James, Kind, Rainer, Saul, Joachim, Rapine, Richard, Hearn, Thomas M.

“…SKS and SKKS shear waves recorded on the INDEPTH III seismic array deployed in central Tibet during 1998–1999 have been analyzed for the direction and extent…”
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Crustal structure of the Indian Shield: New constraints from teleseismic receiver functions by Ravi Kumar, M., Saul, Joachim, Sarkar, Dipankar, Kind, Rainer, Shukla, Anshu K.

“…Teleseismic earthquake waveform data from 10 broadband stations spread over the Indian shield and in operation since 1997, were analyzed to infer the crustal…”
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Seismic monitoring of the Indian Ocean tsunami by Yuan, Xiaohui, Kind, Rainer, Pedersen, Helle A.

“…The 26 December 2004 Sumatra‐Andaman earthquake of Mw 9.3 triggered a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean. We here report on observations of the Indian Ocean…”
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Depth to Moho in Greenland: receiver-function analysis suggests two Proterozoic blocks in Greenland by Dahl-Jensen, Trine, Larsen, Tine B, Woelbern, Ingo, Bach, Torben, Hanka, Winfried, Kind, Rainer, Gregersen, Søren, Mosegaard, Klaus, Voss, Peter, Gudmundsson, Olafur

“…The GLATIS project (Greenland Lithosphere Analysed Teleseismically on the Ice Sheet) with collaborators has operated a total of 16 temporary broadband…”
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Evidence from Earthquake Data for a Partially Molten Crustal Layer in Southern Tibet by Kind, Rainer, Ni, James, Zhao, Wenjin, Wu, Jianxin, Yuan, Xiaohui, Zhao, Lianshe, Sandvol, Eric, Reese, Chris, Nabelek, John, Hearn, Thomas

“…Earthquake data collected by the INDEPTH-II Passive-Source Experiment show that there is a substantial south to north variation in the velocity structure of…”
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