Shear wave splitting and subcontinental mantle deformation

PG Silver, WW Chan - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
We have made measurements of shear wave splitting in the phases SKS and SKKS at 21
broadband stations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa …

[图书][B] An introduction to seismology, earthquakes, and earth structure

S Stein, M Wysession - 2009 - books.google.com
An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structures is an introduction to
seismology and its role in the earth sciences, and is written for advanced undergraduate and …

The isolation of receiver effects from teleseismic P waveforms

CJ Ammon - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America …, 1991 - oceanrep.geomar.de
Concentrates on recent developments related to the procedure used to isolate the near-
receiver propagation effects from the far-field dislocation time function, near-source …

On the nonuniqueness of receiver function inversions

CJ Ammon, GE Randall, G Zandt - Journal of Geophysical …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
To study the resolving power of teleseismic P waveforms for receiver structure, we model
synthetic waveforms using a time domain waveform inversion scheme beginning with a …

[图书][B] Microearthquake seismology and seismotectonics of South Asia

JR Kayal - 2008 - books.google.com
Hardly a week passes without our learning of natural geologic disaster somewhere in the
world, be it a volcanic eruption, landslide, or destructive earthquake. The prominent public …

Implications for continental structure and evolution from seismic anisotropy

PG Silver, WW Chan - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
Evidence is presented for azimuthal anisotropy in the subcontinental upper mantle from nine
stations in North America and Europe. For the stations in the Canadian Shield, this is due to …

Numerical experiments in broadband receiver function analysis

JF Cassidy - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 1992 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The use of broadband receiver function analysis to estimate the fine-scale S-velocity
structure of the lithosphere is becoming increasingly popular. A series of numerical …

A thinned lithospheric image of the Tanlu Fault Zone, eastern China: constructed from wave equation based receiver function migration

L Chen, T Zheng, W Xu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We apply the newly proposed wave equation‐based receiver function poststack migration
method to the Northern China Interior Structure Project broadband data to image the …

The nature of orogenic crust in the central Andes

SL Beck, G Zandt - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The central Andes (16°–22° S) are part of an active continental margin mountain belt and
the result of shortening of the weak western edge of South America between the strong …

100 years of seismic research on the Moho

C Prodehl, B Kennett, IM Artemieva, H Thybo - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The detection of a seismic boundary, the “Moho”, between the outermost shell of the Earth,
the Earth's crust, and the Earth's mantle by A. Mohorovičić was the consequence of …