Crustal thinning between the Ethiopian and East African plateaus from modeling Rayleigh wave dispersion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Benoit, Margaret H ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^a   Pasyanos, Michael E ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ISOSTATIC RESPONSE; MANTLE STRUCTURES; RAYLEIGH WAVE DISPERSION;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFTING; WAVE DISPERSION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

EID: 33845664400     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025687     Document Type: Article

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