Imaging the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Pacific using SS waveform modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Rychert, Catherine A ^a   Shearer, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; STACKING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 79961197879     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB008070     Document Type: Article

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