Upper mantle P velocity structure beneath the Baikal Rift from modeling regional seismic data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Brazier, Richard A ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baikal Rift; Continental rifting; Plumes; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL PLUMES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; LAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

RIFT AXIS; BAIKAL RIFT; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; GRID-SEARCH METHOD; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; PLUMES; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; THERMAL ANOMALIES; UPPER MANTLE;

GEOPHYSICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

BAIKAL RIFT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0038504835     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016115     Document Type: Article

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