Imaging the three-dimensional crust of the Korean Peninsula by joint inversion of surface-wave dispersion and teleseismic receiver functions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1002-1011

  Yoo, H J ^a,b   Herrmann, R B ^c   Cho, K H ^b   Lee, K ^b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

JOINT INVERSION; SURFACE VELOCITY; SURFACE-WAVE DISPERSION; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MOHO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 34250792746     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060134     Document Type: Article

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