Crustal thickness at the Tuxtla Volcanic Field (Veracruz, Mexico) from receiver functions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Zamora Camacho, A ^a   Espindola, V H ^a   Pacheco, J F ^b   Espindola, J M ^a   Godinez, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Gulf of Mexico margins; Mexican volcanoes; Monogenetic volcanic fields; Tuxtla Volcanic Field

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ROCKS; BROADBAND SEISMOMETERS; BROADBAND STATION; COMPOSITE VOLCANOES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GULF OF MEXICO; ME-XICO; MEXICAN VOLCANOES; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SCORIA CONE; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; TELESEISMIC EVENTS; VELOCITY MODEL; VERACRUZ; VOLCANIC BELT; VOLCANIC FIELD;

SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; MOHO; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT; VERACRUZ;

EID: 77956189270     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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