Surface wave tomography of the Gulf of California

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, X ^a   Paulssen, H ^a   Lebedev, S ^a   Meier, T ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS;

MANTLE; MICROPLATE; SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE;

SEISMIC WAVES;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MICROPLATE; PHASE VELOCITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34948878646     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030631     Document Type: Article

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