Upper-mantle shear velocity beneath eastern Australia from inversion of waveforms from SKIPPY portable arrays

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-16

  Zielhuis, Alet ^a,b   Van Der Hilst, Rob D ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Australia; Broad band; S waves; Seismology; Surface waves; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; SHEAR VELOCITY; SKIPPY; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030485082     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb01530.x     Document Type: Article

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