The upper mantle structure of the central Rio Grande rift region from teleseismic P and S wave travel time delays and attenuation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 16003-16023

  Slack, Philip D ^a,b   Davis, Paul M ^a   Baldridge, W Scot ^c   Olsen, Kenneth H ^d   Glahn, Andreas ^e   Achauer, Ulrich ^f   Spence, William ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Universität Karlsruhe ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^f The French National Centre for Scientific Research   (France)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; MANTLE (UPPER); MANTLE STRUCTURE; P WAVE; S WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

MEXICO, RIO GRANDE RIFT; USA, RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EID: 0030517821     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00109     Document Type: Article

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