3D topography of the Moho discontinuity in the Taiwan area as extracted from travel time inversion of PmP phases

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-343

  Hsu, Hsuan Ju ^a   Wen, Strong ^a   Chen, Chau Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Directionality function; Moho depth; PmP travel time inversion; Rectilinearity function

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MOHO; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; TREND ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 79955039200     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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