Shear-wave structure of the South Indian lithosphere from Rayleigh wave phase-velocity measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 4 A, 2006, Pages 1551-1559

  Mitra, S ^a,b   Priestley, K ^a   Gaur, V K ^c,d   Rai, S S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^d CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

^e NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR WAVES; SPEED; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PHASE-VELOCITY DISPERSION; PHASE-VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC LITHOSPHERE; SHEAR-WAVE STRUCTURE; SPEED GRADIENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

LITHOSPHERE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 33748047449     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050116     Document Type: Article

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