Structure of young East Pacific Rise lithosphere from ambient noise correlation analysis of fundamental- and higher-mode Scholte-Rayleigh waves

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 343, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 571-583

  Yao, Huajian ^a,c   Gouédard, Pierre ^a   Collins, John A ^b   McGuire, Jeffrey J ^b   van der Hilst, Robert D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; East Pacific Rise; Fundamental and higher mode Scholte Rayleigh waves; Lithosphere; Low velocity zone; Oceanic Uppermost Mantle

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CORRELATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GREEN FUNCTION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80054106225     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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