Shear-wave structure of the lithosphere above the Hawaiian hot spot from two-station Rayleigh wave phase velocity measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1493-1496

  Priestley, Keith ^a   Tilmann, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); EARTHQUAKES; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FUNDAMENTAL MODES; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MECHANICAL BOUNDARIES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; UPPER-MANTLE VELOCITIES; WAVE STRUCTURES;

SHEAR FLOW; SEISMOLOGY;

LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

HOT SPOT; LITHOSPHERE; S-WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033562307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900299     Document Type: Article

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