Is the Moho flat? Seismic evidence for a rough crust-mantle interface beneath the northern Basin and Range

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 451-454

  Larkin, S P ^a   Levander, A ^a   Henstock, T J ^a   Pullammanappallil, S ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE VERSUS OFFSET; BASIN AND RANGE; CONTINUOUS SEQUENCES; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRADIENT MODEL; NORTHERN BASINS; REFLECTION AND REFRACTIONS; SEISMIC EVIDENCE;

GEOLOGY;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; MOHO; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; CRUST/MANTLE BOUNDARY; PHASE TRANSITION; TOPOGRAPHY;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; USA;

EID: 0030847368     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0451:ITMFSE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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