Seismic evidence for partial lithospheric delamination model of Colorado Plateau uplift

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1319-1322

  Lastowka, Lynda A ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a   Schneider, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Enterprise Oil   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; WAVES; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

MANTLE LID;

SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

BROADBAND DATA; DELAMINATION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

COLORADO PLATEAU; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; SURFACE WAVE DATA; THERMAL ORIGINS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035302705     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012360     Document Type: Article

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