Crustal thickness variations across the northern Tien Shan from teleseismic receiver functions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1055-1058

  Bump, Hedwig A ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS VARIATIONS; KYRGYZSTAN SEISMIC TELEMETRY NETWORKS (KNET); TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DECONVOLUTION APPROACH; GRID SEARCH; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TELESEISMIC P WAVEFORMS;

SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; P WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ASIA; KAZAKH SHIELD; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 0032051449     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00516     Document Type: Article

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