No Moho uplift below the Baikal Rift Zone: Evidence from a seismic refraction profile across southern Lake Baikal

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Nielsen, Christoffer ^a   Thybo, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; GRABEN; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 72749086153     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005828     Document Type: Article

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