Crustal thickness variation in south-central Alaska

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 781-784

  Veenstra, Elizabeth ^a   Christensen, Douglas H ^a   Abers, Geoffrey A ^b   Ferris, Aaron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Range; Crust; Isostasy; Mohorovicic discontinuity; PASSCAL; Teleseismic signals

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND TELESEISMIC WAVEFORMS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; ISOSTASY; MOHOROVICIC DISCONTINUITY; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS;

LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL ROOT; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748933890     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22615.1     Document Type: Article

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