Teleseismic tomography of the upper mantle beneath the southern Lachlan Orogen, Australia

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 84-97

  Rawlinson, N ^a   Kennett, B L N ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lachlan Orogen; Lithospheric structure; Non linear inversion; Southeast Australia; Teleseismic tomography

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR INVERSION; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

GEOPHYSICS;

ACCRETION; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE; INVERSION TECTONICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE SOURCE; MOHO; OROGENY; P-WAVE; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GREAT DIVIDING RANGE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 42649089804     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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