Crustal thickness in the central Andes from teleseismically recorded depth phase precursors

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1013-1022

  Mcglashan, Neil ^a   Brown, Larry ^a   Kay, Suzanne ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake source observations; South America; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MOHO; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ANDES; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 57049127274     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03897.x     Document Type: Article

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