Seismic imaging east of the Rocky Mountains with USArray

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 402, Issue C, 2014, Pages 16-25

  Porritt, Robert W ^a,c   Allen, Richard M ^a   Pollitz, Fred F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep Farallon slab; Geophysics; Llano Province; Seismology; Wyoming Province

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

DEEP FARALLON SLAB; FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTIONS; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS; LLANO PROVINCE; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; WAVE PHASE VELOCITIES; WYOMING;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 84911029361     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.034     Document Type: Article

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