Crustal thicknesses and Poisson's ratios in China by joint analysis of teleseismic receiver functions and Rayleigh wave dispersion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Ma, Yanlu ^a   Zhou, Huilan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES;

BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CRUSTAL MODELS; RAYLEIGH WAVE DISPERSION; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; RAYLEIGH WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 38849130623     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029848     Document Type: Article

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