Significant crustal thinning beneath the Baikal rift zone: New constraints from receiver function analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Gao, Stephen S ^a   Liu, Kelly H ^a   Chen, Chizheng ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

7200 Seismology; 7203 Seismology: Body wave propagation; 7205 Seismology: Continental crust (1242)

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONES (BRZ); CRUSTAL THINNING; EAST AFRICAN (EAR); RIO GRANDE (RGR); TELESEISMIC RECEIVERS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EID: 11844266508     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020813     Document Type: Article

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