Probing the southern Indian shield with P-wave receiver-function profiles

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 328-333

  Tseng, Tai Lin ^a   Chen, Wang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SHORT-PERIOD SEISMOGRAM; TRANSMITTED WAVE FIELDS; VERTICAL-COMPONENT SEISMOGRAM;

SEISMOLOGY;

P-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN SHIELD; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33644499142     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050074     Document Type: Article

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