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nbsp;rises and pore pressure climbs, friction holding the top layer of soil to the hillside begins to drop until gravity's pull overcomes it. To aid oil companies in the geological understanding of the area, TGS also offers complementary AVO products, rock property volumes, pore pressure volumes and synthetic seismograms. But the low-velocity zone is more pronounced under Tibet than in these other, high-temperature regions, and Chun argues that the slow seismic speeds in Tibet are due not to high temperatures but to water trapped in the cracks of the underthrusting Indian continent, which has increased the pore pressure of the crust. |
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