Rayleigh wave group velocity tomography of Siberia, China and the vicinity

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 447-473

  Wu, Francis T ^a   Levshin, Anatoli L ^b   Kozhevnikov, Vladimir M ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

China; Group velocity; Rayleigh wave; Siberia; Tomographic inversion; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

INVERSION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE GROUP VELOCITY;

CHINA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SIBERIA;

EID: 0030691854     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050035     Document Type: Article

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