Three-dimensional S-wave structure of the upper mantle beneath Turkey from surface wave tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1058-1076

  Bakirci, Taciser ^a   Yoshizawa, Kazunori ^b   Özer, Mithat Firat ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Seismic tomography; Subduction zone processes; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; ANTALYA BASIN; BROAD BANDS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPTH RANGE; FOCAL DEPTH; FREE OSCILLATION; HOT MATERIALS; ISPARTA ANGLE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PHASE SPEED; S-WAVE MODELS; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC STATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLOW WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-COMPONENT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM DATA;

CATCHMENTS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SPEED; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASTHENOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SURFACE WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

TURKEY;

EID: 84863784306     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05526.x     Document Type: Article

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