Lithospheric structure beneath the Zagros collision zone resolved by non-linear teleseismic tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 394-406

  Shomali, Z Hossein ^a,b   Keshvari, Forough ^a   Hassanzadeh, Jamshid ^c   Mirzaei, Noorbakhsh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Continental tectonics: compressional; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVES; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CRUSTAL BLOCK; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; HIGH QUALITY; INVERSE METHODS; LEAST SQUARE; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE VELOCITY; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TELESEISMIC; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TECTONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

VELOCITY;

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONICS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

ARABIAN SHIELD; IRAN; ZAGROS;

EID: 80052964450     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05150.x     Document Type: Article

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