The thermo-chemical and physical structure beneath the North American continent from Bayesian inversion of surface-wave phase velocities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Khan, A ^a   Zunino, A ^b   Deschamps, F ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA INVERSION; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; PHASE VELOCITY; S-WAVE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOMECHANICS; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 80053032932     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008380     Document Type: Article

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