A major step in the continental Moho and its geodynamic consequences: The Taranaki-Ruapehu line, New Zealand

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-44

  Salmon, M L ^a,b   Stern, T A ^b   Savage, M K ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Body waves; Intra plate processes; Neotectonics; Rheology: crust and lithosphere

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; ELECTRICAL DATA; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FRESNEL ZONES; HYPOCENTRAL DEPTH; INTRA-PLATE PROCESSES; LITHOSPHERIC; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; NEOTECTONICS; NEW ZEALAND; RAPID CHANGES; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

TECTONICS;

BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEODYNAMICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; NEOTECTONICS; P-WAVE; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VOLCANISM;

MOUNT RUAPEHU; MOUNT TARANAKI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TARANAKI;

EID: 79959258029     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05035.x     Document Type: Article

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