Upper-mantle seismic structure beneath SE and Central Brazil from P- and S-wave regional traveltime tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 268-286

  Rocha, Marcelo Peres ^a   Schimmel, Martin ^b   Assumpção, Marcelo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Inverse theory; Mantle processes; Seismic tomography; South America

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; INVERSE THEORY; MANTLE PROCESSES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA;

BASALT; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

VELOCITY;

CRUSTAL THINNING; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PROTEROZOIC; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 78650151289     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04831.x     Document Type: Article

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