Crust and upper mantle structure in the Caribbean region by group velocity tomography and regionalization

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1985-2007

  González, O'Leary ^a,b   Alvarez, Leonardo ^a,b   Guidarelli, Mariangela ^c   Panza, Giuliano F ^b,c  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas   (Cuba)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caribbean region; Group velocities dispersion curves; Regionalization; S wave velocity models; Surface waves tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; REGIONALIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAM; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 34948845059     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0259-7     Document Type: Review

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