P- and S-Wave receiver function images of crustal imbrication beneath the cheyenne belt in southeast Wyoming

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1953-1961

  Hansen, Steven ^a   Dueker, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FREE SURFACES; LOWER CRUST; PROTEROZOIC; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC STATION; SOURCE FUNCTIONS; SPECTRUM ESTIMATION; TELESEISMIC P-WAVE TOMOGRAM; WYOMING;

GALLIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

SHEAR WAVES;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DECONVOLUTION; IMBRICATION; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; P-WAVE; PROTEROZOIC; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUTURE ZONE;

CHEYENNE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 69549135623     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080168     Document Type: Article

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