VS and density structure beneath the Colorado Plateau constrained by gravity anomalies and joint inversions of receiver function and phase velocity data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bailey, Iain W ^a   Miller, Meghan S ^a   Liu, Kaijian ^b   Levander, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT; WAVE VELOCITY;

COLORADO PLATEAU; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863399607     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008522     Document Type: Article

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