Seismic receiver functions and the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

Tectonophysics

Volumn 536-537, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-43

  Kind, Rainer ^a,b   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Kumar, Prakash ^a,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Lithosphere asthenosphere boundary; Mid lithospheric discontinuity; North American craton; Receiver functions; Upper mantle low velocity zone

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; NORTH AMERICAN; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

SURFACE WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRATON; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 84860112606     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.005     Document Type: Review

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