New constraints on upper-mantle S-velocity structure and crustal thickness of the Iranian plateau using partitioned waveform inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 247-267

  Manaman, Navid Shad ^a   Shomali, Hossein ^b   Koyi, Hemin ^b  

^a SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Inverse theory; Seismic tomography; Subduction zone processes; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; COMPLEX DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEPTH VARIATION; EURASIAN PLATES; HIGH VELOCITY; INVERSE THEORY; LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; MOHO DEPTH; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC PLATE SUBDUCTION; PRIORI INFORMATION; S VELOCITY; SEISMIC IMAGE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY PATTERN; SOUTH CASPIAN; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY MODEL; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WATER WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICAN PLATE; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EURASIAN PLATE; INVERSE PROBLEM; MOHO; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC SETTING; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; ELBURZ; IRAN; IRANIAN PLATEAU; MAKRAN; ZAGROS;

EID: 78650128299     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04822.x     Document Type: Article

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