Deep structure of southern California

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 165, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 93-113

  Tian, You ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Teng, Jiwen ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crust; Moho discontinuity; Seismic tomography; Southern California; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBCRUSTAL LITHOSPHERE; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

TECTONICS;

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; MOHO; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SALTON TROUGH; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35548991781     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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