A depleted, destabilized continental lithosphere near the Rio Grande rift

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 175-184

  Song, Teh Ru Alex ^a   Helmberger, D V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

continental rift; finite difference; lithospheric destabilization; waveform diffraction

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL RIFT; LITHOSPHERIC DESTABILIZATION; WAVEFORM DIFFRACTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LITHOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RIFT ZONE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; SLAB; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WAVE DIFFRACTION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EID: 34548841916     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.052     Document Type: Article

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