Crustal shear wave tomography of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, via ambient noise correlation between multiple three-component networks

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Behr, Y ^a   Townend, J ^a   Bannister, S ^b   Savage, M K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ambient noise; crustal S velocity structure; surface waves; tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES;

AMBIENT NOISE; COMPRESSIONAL; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; CONDUCTIVE BODIES; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CROSS SECTION; CRUSTAL S VELOCITY STRUCTURE; EAST COAST; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL INFORMATION; HEAT FLOWS; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETOTELLURIC SURVEYS; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC PLATES; PARTIAL MELT; RAYLEIGH-WAVE DISPERSION; RHYOLITIC MAGMA; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SEISMIC STATION; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SHEAR VELOCITY MODELS; SOURCE REGION; SURFACE-WAVE ANALYSIS; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE; THREE-COMPONENT; TIMING ERRORS; UPPER CRUST;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; LOWER CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFTING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER CRUST; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DISPERSION;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79953725176     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003385     Document Type: Article

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