A seismic image of the upper mantle beneath the North American craton

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1593-1596

  Bostock, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCIES; MAPPING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICAN CRATON; SIMULTANEOUS DECONVOLUTION; TELESEISMIC WAVES; TOPOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE (UPPER); MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; PHASE TRANSFORMATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

410-KM DISCONTINUITY; BROADBAND SEISMOGRAMS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; NORTH AMERICAN CRATONS; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; SEISMOGRAPH NETWORKS; SIDE-LOBE INTERFERENCE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030158826     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00972     Document Type: Article

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