Two-dimensional velocity model of the crust beneath the South Cambay Basin, India from refraction and wide-angle reflection data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 635-652

  Dixit, Madan Mohan ^a   Tewari, Harish C ^b   Rao, C Visweswara ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b Andhra University ^*  (India)

^c ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Dynamics: seismotectonics; Fractures and faults; Sedimentary basin processes

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; ARRIVAL TIME; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DECCAN TRAPS; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; FRACTURE; MOHO; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOTECTONICS; TERTIARY; TRAVEL TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER CRUST; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CAMBAY BASIN; GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 77953105382     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04539.x     Document Type: Article

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