[1] We investigate the lithospheric and upper mantle shear wave velocity structure and the depth-dependence of anisotropy along the Red Sea and beneath the Arabian Peninsula using receiver function constraints and phase velocities of surface waves traversing two transects of stations from the Saudi Arabian National Digital Seismic Network. Frequency-dependent phase delays of fundamental-mode Lo...

Abstract. Based on recent results of AlpArray, we propose a new model Alpine collision that involves subduction and detachment thick (∼ 180 km) European lithosphere. Our approach combines teleseismic P-wave tomography existing local earthquake (LET), allowing us to image the slabs their connections with overlying orogenic lithosphere at an unprecedented resolution. The images call into question...

Estimates of crustal and lithospheric thickness beneath ten permanent seismic stations in southern, central, and eastern Africa have been obtained from modeling S-wave receiver functions (SRFs). For eight of the examined stations, the Moho depth estimates agree well with estimates from previous studies using P-wave receiver functions (PRFs). For two stations, TSUM and BGCA, previous PRF estimat...

the mapping of the crust-mantle boundary surface is an important geophysical task, which the method of seismic profiling has dealt with profitably. there are, however, areas where the crustal structure is not known up to the present, and where the moho has as yet not been determined by geophysical sounding. in such areas the isostatic theory may be applied to give a first estimate of the depths...

The Colorado Plateau and its surroundings serve as an archetypal case to investigate the interaction of mantle melting processes lithospheric structure. It has been hypothesized that widespread Cenozoic volcanism indicates encroachment convective upwelling asthenosphere toward center. In this study, we generate a Common Conversion Point (CCP) stack S-to-p (Sp) receiver functions image locations...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: receiver functions lithosphere lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary mid-lithospheric discontinuity To explore how lithospheric structure varies between tectonic and magmatic terranes of the western United States, we use observations of shear-to-compressional wave conversions across lithospheric velocity interfaces. With a newly developed automatic m...