Crustal structure of Mexico and surrounding regions from seismic ambient noise tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1413-1424

  Gaite, Beatriz ^a   Iglesias, Arturo ^b   Villaseñor, Antonio ^a   Herraiz, Miguel ^c   Pacheco, Javier F ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

North America; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BROADBAND STATION; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTINENTAL SCALE; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA SETS; DISPERSION MAP; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH VELOCITY; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; ME-XICO; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHORT PERIODS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT; VOLCANIC ARC;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DISPERSION (WAVES); SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

VELOCITY;

AMBIENT NOISE; BROADBAND DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA INVERSION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84857054469     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05339.x     Document Type: Article

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