Kosarev G, Kind R, Sobolev SV, Yuan X, Hanka W, Oreshin S
Institute of the Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, B. Gruzinskaya 10, 128810 Moscow, Russia. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany. Freie Universität Berlin, Geophysik, Malteser Strasse 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Germany.
Science. 1999 Feb 26;283(5406):1306-1309. doi: 10.1126/science.283.5406.1306.
P-to-S converted teleseismic waves recorded by temporary broadband networks across Tibet show a north-dipping interface that begins 50 kilometers north of the Zangbo suture at the depth of the Moho (80 kilometers) and extends to a depth of 200 kilometers beneath the Bangong suture. Under northern Tibet a segmented south-dipping structure was imaged. These observations suggest a different form of detachment of the Indian and Asian lithospheric mantles caused by differences in their composition and buoyancy.