Upper mantle imaging beneath the Japan Islands by Hi-net tiltmeter recordings

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1007-1012

  Tonegawa, Takashi ^a   Hirahara, Kazuro ^b   Shibutani, Takuo ^b   Shiomi, Katsuhiko ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Receiver function; Subducting slab; Tiltmeter; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

IMAGING METHOD; SEISMOGRAM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TILT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33750208914     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352605     Document Type: Article

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