Crustal and uppermost mantle structure in the central U.S. encompassing the Midcontinent Rift

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4325-4344

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

ambient noise; joint inversion; Midcontinent Rift; receiver function; surface wave

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PHASE VELOCITY; PRECAMBRIAN; RAYLEIGH WAVE; RIFTING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

MIDCONTINENT RIFT;

EID: 84885111703     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50321     Document Type: Article

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