New constraints on the upper mantle structure of the Slave craton from Rayleigh wave inversion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Chin Wu ^a   Rondenay, Stéphane ^a   Weeraratne, Dayanthie S ^b   Snyder, David B ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; RAYLEIGH WAVE INVERSION; UPPER MANTLE ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; LITHOLOGY; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHOCK WAVES; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AZIMUTH; CRATON; DATA INVERSION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

CANADIAN SHIELD; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34447542342     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029535     Document Type: Article

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