Crustal structure determined from ambient noise tomography near the magmatic centers of the Coso region, southeastern California

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Yingjie ^a,b   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Jones, Craig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ambient noise; Coso geothermal area; surface wave tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

3D MODELS; AMBIENT NOISE; BROADBAND STATION; CALIFORNIA; COSO GEOTHERMAL FIELD; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOTHERMAL AREAS; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MAGMA BODIES; MIOCENE; PARTIAL MELT; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SHEAR VELOCITY MODELS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TRADE OFF;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MIOCENE; PARTIAL MELTING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; COSO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951916291     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003362     Document Type: Article

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