Full waveform tomography for radially anisotropic structure: New insights into present and past states of the Australasian upper mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 270-280

  Fichtner, Andreas ^a,c   Kennett, Brian L N ^b   Igel, Heiner ^a   Bunge, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adjoint method; Australia; lattice preferred orientation; seismic anisotropy; seismic waveform inversion; spectral element method

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHODS; AUSTRALIA; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVEFORM INVERSION; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD;

DEFORMATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY;

ADJOINT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 75149138679     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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