Upper mantle S-velocity structure and Moho depth variations across Zagros belt, Arabian-Eurasian plate boundary

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 92-103

  Manaman, Navid Shad ^a   Shomali Hossein, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arabian Eurasian collision; Multimode surface waveforms; Partitioned waveform inversion; Upper mantle; Zagros

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN-EURASIAN COLLISION; MULTIMODES; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARABIAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DATA INVERSION; DELAMINATION; EURASIAN PLATE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CHINA; EURASIA; IRAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ZAGROS;

EID: 77952550794     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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