Crust and mantle thickening beneath the southern portion of the Southern Alps, New Zealand

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 681-690

  Bourguignon, Sandra ^a   Stern, T A ^a   Savage, M K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthquake refraction; Gravity modelling; Lithospheric deformation; New Zealand; Oblique collision; Pn anisotropy

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKENING; FAULT; GRAVITY SURVEY; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; MOHO; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

AUSTRALASIA; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 33846673600     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03208.x     Document Type: Article

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