Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 402, Issue C, 2014, Pages 26-41

  Schaeffer, A J ^a,b   Lebedev, S ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Lithospheric architecture; North America; Surface wave tomography; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND SEISMOGRAMS; LITHOSPHERIC; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN CRATONS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY GRADIENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84926278563     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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