Seismic CT Scan Graphic (IMAGE)

Rice University

Seismic CT Scan Graphic

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Rice University geophysicists conducted a seismic CT scan of the upper mantle beneath the Tibetan Plateau and concluded that that most of the uplift across Southern Tibet occurred within 10 million years due to the breakaway of a thickened segment of lithosphere that today extends at least 660 kilometers below the plateau.

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M. Chen/Rice University

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