Two-dimensional travel time inversion for the crustal P and S wave velocity structure of the Ruby Mountains metamorphic core complex, NE Nevada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 21121-21143

  Stoerzel, Andreas ^a,b   Smithson, Scott B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

NEVADA; RUBY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032505293     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb01494     Document Type: Article

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