Lithospheric structure in the Baikal-central Mongolia region from integrated geophysical-petrological inversion of surface-wave data and topographic elevation

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fullea, J ^a,b   Lebedev, S ^a   Agius, M R ^a   Jones, A G ^a   Afonso, J C ^c  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; INTEGRATION; PETROLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; BULK COMPOSITIONS; BULK DENSITY; GEOTHERMS; GRID-SEARCH; INTEGRATED DENSITY; INTER-DEPENDENCIES; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC GEOTHERMS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC MODELS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOVE-WAVE; LOWER CRUST; MAIN PARAMETERS; MANTLE COMPOSITION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; MONGOLIA; PLEISTOCENE; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; THERMAL ANOMALIES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; INVERSION LAYER; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-T CONDITIONS; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFTING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84864691966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004138     Document Type: Article

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