An integrated analysis of controlled and passive source seismic data across an archean-proterozoic suture zone in the Rocky Mountains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Rumpfhuber, Eva Maria ^a,b,c   Keller, G Randy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ARRIVAL TIME; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVITY SURVEY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; POINT SOURCE; POISSON RATIO; PROTEROZOIC; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUTURE ZONE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE VELOCITY;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 72749083910     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005886     Document Type: Article

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