Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Yingjie ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Lin, F C ^a   Moschetti, M P ^a   Shapiro, Nikolai M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61449238123     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005833     Document Type: Article

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