3D upper mantle structure beneath Japan and its surrounding region from inter-station dispersion measurements of surface waves

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 4-19

  Yoshizawa, K ^a,b   Miyake, K ^a   Yomogida, K ^a   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^a   Bina, Craig ^a   Inoue, Toru ^a   Wiens, Douglas ^a   Jellinek, Mark ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Japanese Islands; Phase speed; Sea of Japan; Surface waves; Tomography; Two station method

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; BODY WAVES; BROAD BANDS; DEPTH RANGE; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EAST ASIA; FAST WAVE SPEED; JAPANESE ISLANDS; LOVE WAVE; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MANTLE WEDGE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATES; PHASE SPEED; RADIALLY ANISOTROPIC; RAYLEIGH; S-WAVE MODELS; SEA OF JAPAN; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TWO STATION METHOD; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; WEST COAST;

ANISOTROPY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SPEED; SPEED CONTROL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PHASE VELOCITY; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; YAMATO RISE;

EID: 78649449696     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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