Structure of the crust and upper mantle in the Alps from the phase velocity of Rayleigh waves

L Knopoff, S Mueller, WL Pilant - Bulletin of the …, 1966 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The phase velocity method has been applied to the problem of the determination of the crust
and upper mantle under the western Alpine crest and in the Alpine foreland to the north. An …

Crustal and upper mantle structure beneath the Apennines region as inferred from the study of Rayleigh waves

G Calcagnile, GF Panza - Journal of Geophysics, 1978 - journal.geophysicsjournal.com
Rayleigh wave phase velocities were obtained in the period range 12.5–83.3 s using the
almost linear array of long period seismic stations installed at Bari (BAI), Grosseto (GSO) …

The structure of the upper mantle under the United States from the dispersion of Rayleigh waves

NN Biswas, L Knopoff - Geophysical Journal International, 1974 - academic.oup.com
Seismograms from vertical-component, long-period instruments of the World-Wide Standard
Seismographic Network (WWSSN) within the United States have been analysed to …

Observation and inversion of surface-wave dispersion

L Knopoff - Tectonophysics, 1972 - Elsevier
Rayleigh wave phase velocities have been measured to periods in excess of 160 sec for a
number of profiles, worldwide and for many different geologic structures. It is found that at …

Upper mantle structure of western North America from apparent velocities of P waves

M Niazi, DL Anderson - Journal of Geophysical Research, 1965 - Wiley Online Library
In a study of variation of the compressional velocity with depth in the C region of the upper
mantle in western North America, we determined apparent velocities of first arrivals across …

P-wave velocities in the mantle below 700 km

MA Chinnery, MN Toksöz - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 1967 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
abstract Measurements of the slope of the travel-time curve have been made on a group of
167 events in the distance range 27°-90° along an azimuth of 300°-320° from the LASA …

Seismological evidence pertaining to the structure of the Earth's upper mantle

O Nuttli - Reviews of Geophysics, 1963 - Wiley Online Library
This review is concerned with the variation of compressional and shear‐wave velocities with
depth in the earth's upper mantle. Information about the compressional velocities is obtained …

A fine structural section through the crust and lower lithosphere along the axial region of the Alps

QZ Yan, J Mechie - Geophysical Journal International, 1989 - academic.oup.com
A unified two-dimensional lithospheric model has been derived for the P-wave velocity
structure beneath the Alpine Longitudinal Profile (ALP'75) main line by making new phase …

Rayleigh-wave evidence for the low-velocity zone in the mantle

H Takeuchi, F Press… - Bulletin of the …, 1959 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Variational calculus methods are applied to the problem of dispersion of mantle Rayleigh
waves. In the present paper we have worked two models. One is Gutenberg's model with a …

A seismic investigation of the upper mantle to the west of Lake Superior

BTR Lewis, RP Meyer - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 1968 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Observations of seismic waves generated by explosions in Lake Superior during the Early
Rise Experiment have been made westward to a range of 2600 km. A phase filtering …