An effective elastic thickness map of Australia from wavelet transforms of gravity and topography using Forsyth's method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Swain, C J ^a,b   Kirby, J F ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ESTIMATION; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ELASTIC THICKNESS; FORSYTH'S METHOD; PILBARA CRATONS; YILGARN CRATONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; ELASTIC PROPERTY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33644783057     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025090     Document Type: Article

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