Seismic structure of Precambrian lithosphere: New constraints from broad-band surface-wave dispersion

Lithos

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 96-111

  Lebedev, Sergei ^a,b   Boonen, Jan ^b   Trampert, Jeannot ^b  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Archean; Craton; Hales discontinuity; Proterozoic; Radial anisotropy; Shear wave

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLD BELT; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MOHO; PRECAMBRIAN; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 61849160393     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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