Crustal thickness of Turkey determined by receiver function

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 36-45

  Tezel, Timur ^a   Shibutani, Takuo ^b   Kaypak, Bülent ^c  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; Moho discontinuity; Receiver function; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MOHO; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SURVEY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STACKING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

TURKEY;

EID: 84881097240     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.06.016     Document Type: Article

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