Teleseismic surface wave tomography in the western U.S. using the Transportable Array component of USArray

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Yingjie ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHASE VELOCITY MAPS; TELESEISMIC SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

AMBIENT NOISE; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

CALIFORNIA; IDAHO; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 44249111001     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032278     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Bensen, G. D., M. H. Ritzwoller, and N. M. Shapiro (2007), Broad-band ambient noise surface wave tomography across the United States, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JB005248, in press.
2. Biasi, G. P., and E. D. Humphreys (1992), P-wave image of the upper mantle structure of central California and southern Nevada, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1161-1164.
3. Hales, T. C., D. L. Abt, E. D. Humphreys, and J. J. Roering (2005), A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon, Nature, 438, 842-845.
4. Humphreys, E. D., and R. W. Clayton (1990), Tomographic image of the southern California mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19,725-19,746.
5. Lin, F., M. P. Moschetti, and M. H. Ritzwoller (2008), Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity maps, Geophys. J. Int, in press.
6. Moschetti, M. P., M. H. Ritzwoller, and N. M. Shapiro (2007), Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh wave group velocity maps, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q08010, doi:10.1029/2007GC001655.
7. Sabra, K. G., P. Gerstoft, P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, and M. C. Fehler (2005), Surface wave tomography from microseisms in southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L14311, doi:10.1029/2005GL023155.
8. Saltzer, R. L., and E. D. Humphreys (1997), Upper mantle P wave velocity structure of the eastern Snake River Plain and its relationship to geodynamic models of the region, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 11,829-11,941.
9. Shapiro, N. M., M. Campillo, L. Stehly, and M. H. Ritzwoller (2005), High resolution surface wave tomography from ambient seismic noise, Science, 307, 1615-1618.
10. Tanimoto, T., and K. P. Sheldrake (2002), Three-dimensional S-wave structure in southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(8), 1223, doi:10.10291200GL013486.
11. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith (1998), New, improved version of Generic Mapping Tools released, Eos Trans. AGU, 79(47), 579.
12. Yang, Y., and D. W. Forsyth (2006a), Rayleigh wave phase velocities, small-scale convection, and azimuthal anisotropy beneath southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B07306, doi:10.1029/ 2005JB004180.
13. Yang, Y., and D. W. Forsyth (2006b), Regional tomographic inversion of amplitude and phase of Rayleigh waves with 2-D sensitivity kernels, Geophys. J. Int., 166, 1148-1160.
14. Yao H., R. D. Van der Hilst, and M. V. De Hoop (2006), Surface-wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis: I - Phase velocity maps, Geophys. J. Int., 166, 732-744.