Moho dip and crustal anisotropy in Northwestern Nevada from teleseismic receiver functions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 745-754

  Peng, Xiaohua ^a   Humphreys, Eugene D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ANISOTROPY; MOHO; SEISMIC EXPERIMENT; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TELESEISMIC SIGNAL;

USA, NEVADA;

EID: 0031444798     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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