Seismic signatures of the Pan-African orogeny: Implications for southern Indian high-grade terranes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 518-528

  Rai, Abhishek ^a,e   Gaur, V K ^b,c   Rai, S S ^d   Priestley, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^d NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Body waves; Composition of the continental crust; Crustal structure; Dynamics: seismotectonics; Palaeoseismology; Ultra high temperature metamorphism

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MOHO; PALEOSEISMICITY; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMOTECTONICS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

TOBACCO RATTLE VIRUS;

EID: 58549106396     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03965.x     Document Type: Article

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