Imaging lithospheric interfaces and 3D structures using receiver functions, gravity, and tomography in a common inversion scheme

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1381-1390

  Basuyau, C ^a   Tiberi, C ^b  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Gravity; Joint inversion; P wave tomography; Receiver functions; Stochastic methods

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DELAY TIME; DENSITY STRUCTURES; GOOD DATA; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; IMAGE DENSITY; INVERSION SCHEME; JOINT INVERSION; LITHOSPHERIC; MODEL SPACES; MOHO DEPTH; NEIGHBORHOOD ALGORITHM; P-VELOCITY; P-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; P-WAVES; PRIORI INFORMATION; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STOCHASTIC METHODS; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TELESEISMIC; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

SEISMIC WAVES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; LITHOSPHERE; MOHO; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; STOCHASTICITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 80051564422     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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