A 3-D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Central and Western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 262-276

  Shen, Weisen ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Schulte Pelkum, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient Noise; Joint Inversion; Receiver Functions; Surface Waves; Western US

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; MOHO; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE DISPERSION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877155052     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009602     Document Type: Article

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