Crustal thickness variations across the Blue Ridge mountains, southern Appalachians: An alternative procedure for migrating wide-angle reflection data

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 469-475

  Hawman, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL ROOTS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MOUNTAIN;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ALGORITHM; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA SET; P-WAVE; PALEOZOIC; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STACKING;

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS; APPALACHIAN PLATEAU; APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; CUMBERLAND PLATEAU; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40549120994     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070027     Document Type: Article

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