Attenuation Tomography Beneath the Rocky Mountain Front: Implications for the Physical State of the Upper Mantle

The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry, and Geophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 361-377

  Boyd, Oliver S ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Geology, Structural Rocky Mountains; Geophysics Rocky Mountains; Orogeny Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; LANDFORMS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPOSITIONAL VARIABILITY; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SHEAR WAVE ATTENUATION; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER-MANTLE VELOCITIES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84855428020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/154GM27     Document Type: Chapter

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