Lithospheric structure below seismic stations in Cuba from the joint inversion of Rayleigh surface waves dispersion and receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1047-1059

  González, O'Leary ^a,b   Moreno, Bladimir ^a,b   Romanelli, Fabio ^b,c   Panza, Giuliano F ^b,c  

^a Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas Ministerio de Ciencia   (Cuba)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; North America; Time series analysis; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; JOINT INVERSION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MERCEDES; NORTH AMERICA; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH SURFACE WAVES; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC STATION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC; TOMOGRAPHIC; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; WAVE GROUP;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPPER MANTLE;

CUBA;

EID: 84859722075     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05410.x     Document Type: Article

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