Upper-mantle S-velocity structure across the Zagros collision zone resolved by nonlinear teleseismic tomography

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-339

  Keshvari, Forough ^a   Shomali, Z Hossein ^a,b   Tatar, Mohammad ^c   Kaviani, Ayoub ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body waves; Teleseismic tomography; Upper mantle structures; Zagros collision zone

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARABIAN SHIELD; ZAGROS;

EID: 79953253807     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-011-9226-y     Document Type: Article

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