Velocity structure around the Baikal rift zone from teleseismic and local earthquake traveltimes and geodynamic implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 296, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 125-144

  Petit, Carole ^a   Koulakov, Ivan ^a,b   Deverchère, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Asia; Baikal; Lithosphere; Mantle; Plume; Rifting; Tomography

Indexed keywords

MANTLE PROCESS; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONICS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032582895     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00140-1     Document Type: Article

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