Upper mantle structure beneath the Siberian craton and surrounding areas based on regional tomographic inversion of P and PP travel times

Tectonophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 81-100

  Koulakov, Ivan ^a   Bushenkova, Natalia ^a  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Mongolia; Seismic tomography; Siberian craton; Upper mantle structure

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; VELOCITY;

CENOZOIC MAGMATISM; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MONGOLIA; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SIBERIAN CRATON; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; CRATON; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; BAIKAL MOUNTAINS; MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAYAN MOUNTAINS; SIBERIAN CRATON; SIBERIAN LOWLAND;

EID: 77952009313     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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