Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Boyd, Oliver S ^a   Savage, Martha K ^b   Sheehan, Anne F ^a   Jones, Craig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMICITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

AUSTRALASIA; COOK STRAIT; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34548417109     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004552     Document Type: Article

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