Crustal thickness, discontinuity depth, and upper mantle structure beneath southern Africa: Constraints from body wave conversions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 235-251

  Stankiewicz, Jacek ^a   Chevrot, Sébastien ^b   Van Der Hilst, Rob D ^c   De Wit, Maarten J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kaapvaal craton; Receiver functions; Seismic array

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA PROCESSING; DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC DATA; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0036293318     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(02)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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