A review of crust and upper mantle structure beneath the Indian subcontinent

A Singh, C Singh, BLN Kennett - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
This review presents an account of the variations in crustal and upper mantle structure
beneath the Indian subcontinent and its environs, with emphasis on passive seismic results …

The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate

P Kumar, X Yuan, MR Kumar, R Kind, X Li, RK Chadha - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The breakup of the supercontinent Gondwanaland into Africa, Antarctica, Australia and India
about 140 million years ago, and consequently the opening of the Indian Ocean, is thought …

Lithospheric structure and deep earthquakes beneath India, the Himalaya and southern Tibet

K Priestley, J Jackson… - Geophysical Journal …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
This paper is concerned with the implications of earthquake depth distributions in the
Himalayan–Tibetan collision zone for the general understanding of lithosphere rheology. In …

Imaging the lithospheric structure beneath the Indian continent

S Maurya, JP Montagner, MR Kumar… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a high‐resolution 3‐D lithospheric model of the Indian plate region down to 300
km depth, obtained by inverting a new massive database of surface wave observations …

Inversion of receiver functions without deconvolution—application to the Indian craton

T Bodin, H Yuan, B Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Receiver functions are a powerful tool to isolate and interpret receiver-side structure effects
in teleseismic seismic records. They are easily constructed by deconvolving one component …

Lithospheric architecture and geodynamics of the Archean Dharwar craton and surrounding terranes: New insights from satellite gravity investigation

A Vasanthi, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The construction and destruction of continents, cratons and supercontinents on the globe
involved multiple events of plume, rifting, subduction-accretion, and collision through the …

Deep crustal structure of the Indian shield from joint inversion of P wave receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities: Implications for Precambrian crustal …

J Julia, S Jagadeesh, SS Rai… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The S wave velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Indian shield has
been investigated by jointly inverting P wave receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group …

Imaging the lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary of the Indian plate using converted wave techniques

P Kumar, M Ravi Kumar, G Srijayanthi… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The lithospheric structure of the Indian plate has been investigated using converted wave
techniques (P and S receiver functions) and a novel stacking analysis technique (without …

Global patterns in cratonic mid‐lithospheric discontinuities from Sp receiver functions

HE Krueger, I Gama, KM Fischer - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of this study is to constrain the origins of layering in the seismic velocity structure
within the cratonic mantle lithosphere (ie mid‐lithospheric discontinuities [MLDs]). For long …

Lithosphere of the Dharwar craton by joint inversion of P and S receiver functions

S Kiselev, L Vinnik, S Oreshin, S Gupta… - Geophysical Journal …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Archean Dharwar craton in south India is known for long time to be different
from most other cratons. Specifically, at station Hyderabad (HYB) the Ps converted phases …