Teleseismic traveltimes, topography and the lithospheric structure across central Mongolia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Petit, Carole ^a   Tiberi, Christel ^a   Deschamps, Anne ^a   Déverchère, Jacques ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BOUGUER GRAVITY ANOMALIES; CONVERSION FACTORS; DENSITY VARIATIONS; GRAVITY DATA; ISOSTATIC UPLIFT; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURES; LONG WAVELENGTHS; MONGOLIA; MONTE-CARLO; P-WAVE VELOCITIES; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SIBERIAN PLATFORM; TELESEISMIC; TRAVEL TIMES;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODELING; MOHO; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVELENGTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 49849091858     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033993     Document Type: Article

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