Rayleigh Wave Constraints on Shear-Wave Structure and Azimuthal Anisotropy Beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry, and Geophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 385-401

  Li, Aibing ^a   Forsyth, Donald W ^b   Fischer, Karen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Geology, Structural Rocky Mountains; Geophysics Rocky Mountains; Orogeny Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LANDFORMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RAYLEIGH WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CURRENT PLATE MOTIONS; ISOSTATIC COMPENSATION; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84951016619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/154GM29     Document Type: Chapter

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