Crustal structure of the Gamburtsev Mountains, East Antarctica, from S-wave receiver functions and Rayleigh wave phase velocities

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 395-401

  Hansen, Samantha E ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^b   Heeszel, David S ^c   Wiens, Douglas A ^c   Shore, Patrick ^c   Kanao, Masaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Crustal structure; Gamburtsev Mountains; S wave receiver functions

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EAST ANTARCTICA; GAMBURTSEV MOUNTAINS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; ISO-STATIC SUPPORTS; MANTLE PLUME; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-WAVE RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC FEATURES; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE PLUME; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; GAMBURTSEV MOUNTAINS;

EID: 78649752533     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.022     Document Type: Article

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