Receiver function structure beneath three Southern Africa seismic broadband stations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 339, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 443-454

  Midzi, V ^a   Ottemoller L ^b  

^a Goetz Observatory   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crust; Receiver function; Shear velocity; Southern Africa; Teleseismic events

Indexed keywords

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0035202664     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00124-X     Document Type: Article

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