Variation of Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary beneath Iran by using S Receiver function
Subject Areas :
Mineralogy
Fataneh Taghizadeh Farahmand
1
,
Narges Afsari
2
1 - Department of Physics, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran.
2 - Department of Civil Engineering, Nowshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Nowshahr, Iran
Received: 2016-10-23
Accepted : 2017-07-29
Published : 2018-04-01
Keywords:
Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary,
Teleseismic Waves,
Iran,
S Receiver Function,
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