Shear wave velocity structure in North America from large-scale waveform inversions of surface waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 15969-15986

  Alsina, D ^a   Woodward, R L ^a,b   Snieder, R K ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; S WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

MEXICO; USA;

EID: 0030485366     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00809     Document Type: Article

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