Grid search inversion of teleseismic receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 513-523

  Lodge, Alexandra ^a,b   Helffrich, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body waves; Crustal structure; Hotspots

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE VERDE; MACARONESIA;

EID: 67650318286     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04176.x     Document Type: Article

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