Reflections from a relic Moho in Scotland?

DB Snyder - Continental Lithosphere: Deep Seismic …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Prominent reflectors are observed at about 30 and 50 km depths throughout much of
northern Scotland. The deeper reflector results from impedance contrasts here attributed to …

Magma in layering at the Moho of the Basin and Range of Nevada

E Suetnova, R Carbonell… - Geophysical research …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Layering at the Moho as determined from seismic reflection data is a commonly observed
phenomenon in the Basin and Range for which we propose a porous‐flow melt model …

A study of detachment faults of the upper crust in Manzhouli-Suifenhe GGT by the method of vertical seismic reflection

Y Baojun, L Cai, H Liguo, Z Haijiang, H Min - Geophysics, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Manzhouli-Suifenhe geoscience transect (MS) is one of the eleven transects in China
territory determined by global geoscience transect project. Data acquisition, data processing …

Nature of the Moho transition in NW Canada from combined near-vertical and wide-angle seismic-reflection studies

J Oueity, RM Clowes - Lithosphere, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although the year 2009 marked one century since the discovery of the Moho, or crust-mantle
boundary, the exact nature of that boundary and the manner in which it formed remain major …

Moho in the Archean Minnesota gneiss terrane: Fossil, alteration, or layered intrusion?

NK Boyd, SB Smithson - Geology, 1993 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A seismic survey in the Archean Minnesota gneiss terrane (3.6-3.8 Ga) imaged a seismically
variable, discontinuous Moho at both vertical incidence and wide angles. The wide-angle …

Mapping the Moho beneath the Southern Alps continent‐continent collision, New Zealand, using wide‐angle reflections

SA Henrys, DJ Woodward, D Okaya… - Geophysical research …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A wide‐angle stack using all onshore‐offshore, and onshore seismic data from the SIGHT'96
experiment provides a direct three‐dimensional (3‐D) image of the Moho below the …

[書籍しょせき][B] An investigation of the mantle-crust transition beneath North America and Poisson's ratio of the North American crust

JP Ligorría - 2000 - search.proquest.com
A study to map the variations in the thickness and velocity contrast of the Mantle-Crust
Transition (MCT) beneath North America is conducted using seismic receiver functions …

Insights from synthetic seismogram modelling study of oceanic lower crust and Moho transition zone

V Ingale, SC Singh - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
The Moho discontinuity is one of the fundamental boundaries on Earth, separating the crust
from the upper mantle. Arrival times of seismic reflection and refraction data are used to …

Nature of the Moho beneath the Scottish Highlands from a receiver function perspective

J Di Leo, ID Bastow, G Helffrich - Tectonophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
The geology of Scotland documents a protracted geological history from Precambrian
basement formation through the Caledonian Orogeny and to the Tertiary opening of the …

Constraining Moho characteristics with frequency-dependence of receiver function and its application

S Ting, S Xuzhang, M Xiuping - Acta Seismologica Sinica, 2020 - dzxb.org
Based on the full-waveform theoretical seismograms of different Moho velocity models, the
receiver functions of different frequencies are calculated, and the performances of different …