USArray receiver function images of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 486-491

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

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; ASTHENOSPHERE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 84860158284     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.83.3.486     Document Type: Article

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