Integrated model of the crustal structure in the Gulf of California extensional province

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 878-885

  Savage, Brian ^a   Wang, Yun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; CALIFORNIA; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; EARTH MODELS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INPUT DATAS; INTEGRATED MODELS; LENGTH SCALE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERLAYERS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAVE SPEED;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SPHERES; TRIANGULATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; TRIANGULATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84859131597     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110196     Document Type: Article

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