Upper mantle S velocities beneath Afar and western Saudi Arabia from Rayleigh wave dispersion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4233-4236

  Knox, Ronald P ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^a   Langsten, Charles A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUME; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFTING; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

AFAR; ETHIOPIA; SAUDI ARABIA;

DISPERSION (WAVES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES; DISPERSIONS; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

RAYLEIGH WAVES;

TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; PARTIAL MELT; RAYLEIGH-WAVE DISPERSION; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SAUDI ARABIA; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

EID: 0032534211     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900130     Document Type: Article

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