Linking the upper crust to the upper mantle: Comparison of teleseismic tomography with long-wavelength features of the gravity and magnetic fields of southeastern Australia

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-162

  Musgrave, Robert ^a   Rawlinson, Nicholas ^b  

^a Industry and Investment NSW   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

depth dependent imaging; isostatic gravity; layer filtering; long wavelength anomalies; teleseismics; tilt filter; tomography; total magnetic intensity

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DEPTH-DEPENDENT IMAGING; DIPOLAR SOURCES; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; FIELD IMAGES; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; HEAT PULSE; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOW-PASS; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC INTENSITIES; NEW SOUTH WALES; OROGENS; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PALAEOZOIC; POTENTIAL FIELD; PROTEROZOIC; TELESEISMIC; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THERMAL EVENTS; THRUST FAULTING; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE NUMBERS;

BUILDINGS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; DELAMERIAN OROGENY; GRAVITY FIELD; ISOSTASY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAPH; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TERRANE; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; WAVELENGTH;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 77954463614     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG09024     Document Type: Article

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