Crustal structure beneath the Lower Tagus Valley, southwestern Iberia using joint analysis of teleseismic receiver functions and surface-wave dispersion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 919-933

  Salah, Mohamed K ^a,b   Chang, S J ^c   Fonseca, J F B D ^b  

^a Tanta University   (Egypt)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Broad band seismometers; Crustal structure; Europe; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY WAVES; BROAD-BAND SEISMOMETERS; BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CURRENT CONVERGENCE; DEEP STRUCTURE; EUROPE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; JOINT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; OFFSHORE AREA; ON-BODY; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AFRICAN PLATE; BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAPH; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; TAGUS VALLEY;

EID: 78751489444     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04891.x     Document Type: Article

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