Lithospheric thickness modeled from long-period surface wave dispersion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 481, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 38-50

  Pasyanos, Michael E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Eurasia; Lithosphere; Lithospheric thickness; Mantle lid; Surface waves; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AFRICA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL RIFT; CONVERGENCE ZONES; COOLING MODEL; DEPTH RESOLUTION; DISPERSION MODELS; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PRECAMBRIAN; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SIBERIA; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; TARIM BASIN; THERMAL MODEL; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; WEST AFRICA;

DISPERSION (WAVES); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

LITHOSPHERE; MODELING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA; EURASIA;

EID: 72149099355     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.02.023     Document Type: Article

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