Upper mantle and crustal seismic structure beneath the Northwestern Pacific Basin using a seafloor borehole broadband seismometer and ocean bottom seismometers

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 95-106

  Shinohara, Masanao ^a   Fukano, Tetsuo ^a   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^a   Araki, Eiichiro ^b   Suyehiro, Kiyoshi ^b   Mochizuki, Masashi ^c   Nakahigashi, Kazuo ^a   Yamada, Tomoaki ^a   Mochizuki, Kimihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mantle discontinuity; Northwestern Pacific basin; Ocean bottom seismometer; Seafloor borehole broadband seismometer; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic structure

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC BASIN; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SEAFLOOR BOREHOLE BROADBAND SEISMOMETER; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC STRUCTURE;

SEISMOLOGY;

AIR GUN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 53249109335     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.07.039     Document Type: Article

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