3-D seismic tomography of the Adelaide fold belt

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 167-186

  Clifford, Peter ^a   Greenhalgh, Stewart ^a   Houseman, Greg ^b   Graeber, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Australia; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOLD BELT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GAWLER CRATON; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 37449034957     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03606.x     Document Type: Article

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