[PDF][PDF] Estimating a continuous Moho surface for the California unified velocity model

C Tape, A Plesch, JH Shaw… - Seismological Research …, 2012 - researchgate.net
The Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) is a globally identifiable boundary between the crust
and the uppermost mantle (Dziewonski and Anderson, 1981). It is detected using seismic …

The continental Mohorovičić discontinuity: Results from near‐vertical and wide‐angle seismic reflection studies

LW Braile, CS Chiang - Reflection seismology: A global …, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
The continental Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) has been recognized worldwide from
refracted (Pn) and wide‐angle reflected (PmP) phases from earthquake and explosive …

Mapping the Moho with seismic surface waves: A review, resolution analysis, and recommended inversion strategies

S Lebedev, JMC Adam, T Meier - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The strong sensitivity of seismic surface waves to the Moho is evident from a mere visual
inspection of their dispersion curves or waveforms. Rayleigh and Love waves have been …

How the crust meets the mantle: Lithoprobe perspectives on the Mohorovičić discontinuity and crust–mantle transition

FA Cook, DJ White, AG Jones… - … Journal of Earth …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Application of regional geophysical and geological methods throughout two decades of
Canada's Lithoprobe project provides new opportunities to analyze the Mohorovičić …

[PDF][PDF] 4 Moho depth

P Giese, H Buness - Atlas of Compiled Data, 1992 - epic.awi.de
The crust/mantle boundary, ie the Mohorovicic, or simply Moho, discontinuity represents the
major petrological boundary between the continental crust and upper mantle. Referring to …

Juan de Fuca subduction zone from a mixture of tomography and waveform modeling

R Chu, B Schmandt… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic tomography images of the upper mantle structures beneath the Pacific
Northwestern United States display a maze of high‐velocity anomalies, many of which …

A 3‐D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Central and Western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps from ambient noise and earthquake data are inverted
jointly with receiver functions observed at 828 stations from the USArray Transportable Array …

Estimating crustal thickness in southern California by stacking PmP arrivals

KB Richards‐Dinger, PM Shearer - Journal of Geophysical …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We use observations of the Moho‐reflected phase PmP to constrain crustal thicknesses and
upper mantle velocities in southern California. We stack normalized absolute values of …

The Mohorovičić discontinuity beneath the continental crust: An overview of seismic constraints

R Carbonell, A Levander, R Kind - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The seismic signature of the Moho from which geologic and tectonic evolution hypotheses
are derived is to a large degree a result of the seismic methodology which has been used to …

Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions: a Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Geophysical Journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A non-linear Bayesian Monte-Carlo method is presented to estimate a Vsv model beneath
stations by jointly interpreting Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions and …