100 years of seismic research on the Moho

C Prodehl, B Kennett, IM Artemieva, H Thybo - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The detection of a seismic boundary, the “Moho”, between the outermost shell of the Earth,
the Earth's crust, and the Earth's mantle by A. Mohorovičić was the consequence of …

Recent progress in studies on the characteristics of surface rupture associated with large earthquakes

JH Choi, YS Kim, Y Klinger - Journal of the Geological Society of …, 2017 - insu.hal.science
In given active faults, to explore the location, timing, and size of large paleo-earthquakes is
the most essential work to examine characteristics of future large earthquakes, which can be …

Imaging the upper crust of the Korean Peninsula by surface-wave tomography

KH Cho, RB Herrmann… - Bulletin of the …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cross correlation of seismic-background motions (;) is applied to observations from the
Korean Meteorological Administration seismic network to estimate the short-period Rayleigh …

Surface‐wave tomography from ambient seismic noise of accelerograph networks in southern Korea

TS Kang, JS Shin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient and robust cross‐correlation technique for estimation of surface wave Green's
function between two locations is applied to a set of ambient noise data recorded by …

Low lower crustal velocity across Ethiopia: Is the Main Ethiopian Rift a narrow rift in a hot craton?

KM Keranen, SL Klemperer, J Julia… - Geochemistry …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) is a classic narrow rift that developed in hot, weak
lithosphere, not in the initially cold, thick, and strong lithosphere that would be predicted by …

The crust and upper mantle structure beneath Yunnan from joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave dispersion data

Y Li, Q Wu, R Zhang, X Tian, R Zeng - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this study, we apply joint inversion of receiver function and Rayleigh wave dispersion
(phase and group) velocities data to estimate a shear wave velocity structure for the Yunnan …

Crustal layering in northeastern Tibet: A case study based on joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

Y Deng, W Shen, T Xu… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Recently constructed models of crustal structure across Tibet based on surface wave data
display a prominent mid-crustal low velocity zone (LVZ) but are vertically smooth in the crust …

Tectonic evolution of the Cretaceous Gyeongsang Back-arc Basin, SE Korea: Transition from sinistral transtension to strike-slip kinematics

Y Cheon, S Ha, S Lee, M Son - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gyeongsang Basin, the largest Cretaceous nonmarine sedimentary basin in
Korea, formed as a continental back-arc basin related to NNW-directed subduction of the …

Forward waveform modelling procedure for 1-D crustal velocity structure and its application to the southern Korean Peninsula

S Kim, J Rhie, G Kim - Geophysical Journal International, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We propose a full-grid search procedure for broad-band waveform modelling to determine a
1-D crustal velocity model. The velocity model can be more constrained because of the use …

Crustal imbrication and mountain building in the Eastern Iranian Ranges; Insights from receiver function and Rayleigh wave dispersion analysis

M Mahmoodabadi, F Yamini-Fard, MA Irandoust… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
The evolution of the Eastern Iranian Ranges (EIR) dates back to the Late Cretaceous,
coinciding with the closure of the Neotethys and the accretion of the Lut Block to Eurasia …