Crust and upper mantle structure beneath the Pacific Northwest from joint inversions of ambient noise and earthquake data

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Wagner, Lara S ^a   Fouch, Matthew J ^b   James, David E ^b   Hanson Hedgecock, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ambient noise; High Lava Plains; Pacific Northwest; Snake River Plain; surface waves; tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

AMBIENT NOISE; BASIN AND RANGE; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; EARTHQUAKE DATA; FAST WAVE SPEED; FAULT ZONE; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH LAVA PLAINS; HIGH VELOCITY; JOINT INVERSION; LOW VELOCITIES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; UPPERMOST MANTLE; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SILL; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

IDAHO; NEVADA; OWYHEE PLATEAU; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84871027040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004353     Document Type: Article

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