Lithospheric S-wave velocity structure of the Bastar craton, Indian peninsula, from surface-wave phase-velocity measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2502-2508

  Bhattacharya, S N ^a,b   Suresh, G ^c   Mitra, Supriyo ^b  

^a Indian Institute of Technology ^*  (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CENTRAL INDIA; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DISPERSION CURVES; LITHOSPHERIC; LOVE WAVE; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; LOWER CRUST; OBSERVED DATA; S-WAVE VELOCITY; S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SURFACE-WAVE; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; PHASE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA INVERSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DISPERSION;

ASIA; BASTAR CRATON; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 69549131022     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080360     Document Type: Article

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