Contrasting lithospheric structure between the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin: Initial results from Colorado Plateau - Great Basin PASSCAL experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2609-2612

  Sheehan, Anne F ^a   Jones, Craig H ^a   Savage, Martha Kane ^b   Ozalaybey, Serdar ^c   Schneider, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; PHASE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY;

INTRACRUSTAL CONVERSIONS; LITHOSPHERE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

TECTONICS; SHEAR FLOW;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PASSCAL EXPERIMENT; SEISMIC SURVEY;

USA, COLORADO PLATEAU; USA, GREAT BASIN;

BROAD-BAND SEISMOMETERS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; UPPER-MANTLE VELOCITIES; WAVE PHASE VELOCITIES;

EID: 0031277979     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02782     Document Type: Article

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