Lithospheric velocity structure of the New Madrid Seismic Zone: A joint teleseismic and local P tomographic study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Qie ^a   Sandvol, Eric ^a   Liu, Mian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FIRST ARRIVAL; HIGH VELOCITY; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC INTRUSION; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONES; SEISMICALLY ACTIVE ZONES; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; TELESEISMIC; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE;

SEISMOLOGY; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

VELOCITY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHQUAKE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

MISSOURI; NEW MADRID; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68949107809     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037687     Document Type: Article

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