Lithospheric thickness modeled from long-period surface wave dispersion

Steps in lithospheric thickness within eastern Australia, evidence from surface wave tomography

[1] A series of steps in the lithospheric thickness of eastern Australia are revealed by the latest seismic surface wave tomographic model and calculations of the horizontal gradient of shear wave speed. The new images incorporate data from the recent Tasmal experiment, improving resolution in continental Australia. Through comparisons with surface geology and geochemical studies, it is possibl...

Lithospheric thickness, thinning, subduction, and interaction with the asthenosphere beneath China from the joint inversion of seismic S-wave train fits and Rayleigh-wave dispersion curves

Deducing Subsurface Property Gradients from Surface Wave Dispersion Data

My talk deals with the same subject as that of the previous speaker, Dr. Szabo, except I am not going to assert that it involves residual stresses necessarily. I consider some kind of a perturbation of the elastic properties and/or density due to some kind of surface treatment. As in all problems of this kind I assume, at least for the time being, some kind of an ansatz about mutual proportiona...

A comparison of lithospheric thickness models

Article history: Received 19 April 2016 Received in revised form 28 July 2016 Accepted 1 August 2016 Available online xxxx The outermost layer of the solid Earth consists of relatively rigid plates whose horizontal motions are well described by the rules of plate tectonics. Yet, the thickness of these plates is poorly constrained, with different methods giving widely discrepant results. Here a ...

Long - Period Body - Wave Propagation from 4 ° to 13 °

Numerical seismograms are computed for a compressional pulse in a layered model. The simpler models consist of a fluid layer over a fluid half-space, a fluid layer over a solid half-space, and a solid layer over a solid half-space. Restricted portions of the theoretical response for a layered model approximating the Earth are constructed. Synthetic seismograms are generated using the pressure p...