Evidence for shallow isostatic compensation of the southern Rocky Mountains from Rayleigh wave tomography

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 683-686

  Li, Aibing ^a   Forsyth, Donald W ^a   Fischer, Karen M ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Crust; Isostasy; Lithosphere; Rayleigh wave; Southern Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE;

RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA INVERSION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; ISOSTASY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036693724     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0683:EFSICO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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