Mantle discontinuity depths beneath the west Philippine basin from receiver function analysis of deep-sea borehole and seafloor broadband waveforms

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1947-1956

  Suetsugu, Daisuke ^a   Shinohara, Masanao ^b   Araki, Eiichiro ^a   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^b   Suyehiro, Kiyoshi ^a   Yamada, Tomoaki ^b   Nakahigashi, Kazuo ^b   Shiobara, Hajime ^a   Sugioka, Hiroko ^b   Kawai, Kenji ^b   Fukao, Yoshio ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS; TEMPERATURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEEP SEA BOREHOLE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY DEPTHS; RECEIVER FUNCTION METHOD; SEAFLOOR BROADBAND WAVEFORMS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BROADBAND DATA; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC DATA;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; WORLD;

EID: 28144465317     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040169     Document Type: Article

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