On recent seismic tomography for the western United States

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Becker, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

seismic tomography; subduction; western United States

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEODYNAMICS; SEISMOGRAPHS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DATA SELECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; P WAVES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPERMOST MANTLE; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858650276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003977     Document Type: Article

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