Lower crustal intrusions beneath the southern Baikal Rift Zone: Evidence from full-waveform modelling of wide-angle seismic data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 298-318

  Nielsen, Christoffer ^a   Thybo, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baikal Rift Zone; Full waveform reflectivity modelling; Lower crustal intrusions; Refraction seismology

Indexed keywords

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; FOLD BELTS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATIONS; FULL-WAVEFORM REFLECTIVITY MODELLING; HIGH VELOCITIES; LAKE BAIKAL; LATE PLIOCENE; LAYER THICKNESS; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; LOWER CRUSTAL INTRUSIONS; LOWER CRUSTS; MAFIC INTRUSIONS; MOHO DEPTHS; MULTI-LAYERED; P-WAVE ARRIVALS; P-WAVE VELOCITIES; PRECAMBRIAN; REFRACTION SEISMOLOGY; RIFT STRUCTURES; RIFT ZONES; SEISMIC DATUM; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN PLATFORMS; UPPERMOST MANTLES;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FELDSPAR; LAKES; OLIVINE; PARAFFIN WAXES; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

VELOCITY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRABEN; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; P-WAVE; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SUTURE ZONE; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; EURASIA; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 67349087954     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.01.023     Document Type: Article

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