Directional variations in travel-time residuals of teleseismic P waves in the crust and mantle beneath northern Tien Shan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 650-664

  Martynov, V G ^a   Vernon, F L ^a   Kilb, D L ^a   Roecker, S W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; POLARIZATION; SHEAR WAVES;

KYRGYZ DIGITAL SEISMIC NETWORK (KNET); PLUME INTRUSION; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

CRUST; MANTLE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 2542595485     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030015     Document Type: Article

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