Shear wave velocity structure of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

Tectonophysics

Volumn 554-557, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-104

  Kgaswane, Eldridge M ^a,c   Nyblade, Andrew A ^b   Durrheim, Raymond J ^c,e   Julià, Jordi ^f   Dirks, Paul H G M ^c,d   Webb, Susan J ^c  

^a Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bushveld Complex; Continuous sheet model; Dipping sheet model; Joint inversion; Rayleigh wave group velocities; Receiver functions

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND SEISMIC STATIONS; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; DETAILED MODELING; DIAPIRISM; GROUP VELOCITIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; JOINT INVERSION; RAYLEIGH; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODELS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SOUTH AFRICA; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC REACTIVATION; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; WAVE GROUP;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; LIGHT VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS;

SHEAR WAVES;

CRUSTAL THICKENING; DATA INVERSION; DIAPIRISM; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84863784879     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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