Crustal structure of the Transantarctic Mountains near the Ross Sea from ambient seismic noise tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Pyle, Moira L ^a,b   Wiens, Douglas A ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^c   Anandakrishnan, Sridhar ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREEN FUNCTION; PRECAMBRIAN; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 78649240321     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB007081     Document Type: Article

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