Lithospheric seismic velocity discontinuities beneath the Arabian Shield

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2873-2876

  Sandvol, Eric ^a   Seber, Dogan ^a   Barazangi, Muawia ^a   Vernon, Frank ^b,d   Mellors, Robert ^b,d   Al Amri, Abdullah ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabian Shield; Discontinuity; Lithospheric structure; Saudi Arabia; Seismic velocity; Velocity structure

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARABIAN SHIELD; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC SEISMIC VELOCITY; DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUES; GRID-SEARCH METHOD; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODELS; VELOCITY CONTRASTS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

LITHOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

DISCONTINUITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARABIAN SHIELD; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0032148171     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02214     Document Type: Article

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