Crustal structure beneath Taiwan using frequency-band inversion of receiver function waveforms

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 737-764

  Tomfohrde, David A ^a   Nowack, Robert L ^b  

^a Geco Prakla   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Receiver functions; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MOHO; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0034122205     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00001116     Document Type: Article

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