High-frequency P and S velocity anomalies in the upper mantle beneath Asia from inversion of worldwide traveltime data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Koulakov, Ivan ^a  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DATA INVERSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENIC BELT; P-WAVE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE;

IRAN; JAPAN; MYANMAR; PAMIRS; RYUKYU ISLANDS; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 79953689940     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007938     Document Type: Article

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