Three-dimensional radial anisotropic structure of the North American upper mantle from inversion of surface waveform data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 206-222

  Marone, Federica ^a,c   Gung, Yuancheng ^b   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Broadband; Seismic anisotropy; Surface waves; Tomography; Upper mantle; Waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 35248856340     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03465.x     Document Type: Article

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