rf method is now a well-known tool for studying crustal and upper mantle structure when such a complete data set is available. we compute p receiver functions to investigate the upper mantle discontinuity beneath the northwest of iran. we selected data from teleseismic events (mb ? 5.5, 30 ?>? > 95?) recorded from 1995 to 2008 at 8 three component short period stations from tabriz telemetry sei...

recently, the s receiver function method has been successfully developed to identify upper mantle interfaces. s receiver functions have the advantage of being free of s-wave multiple reflections and can be more suitable than p receiver function for studying mantle lithosphere. however, because of specific ray geometry of the s-to-p converted waves, the s receiver function method has some techni...

the iranian plateau is characterized by diverse tectonic domains, including the continental collisions (e.g. the zagros and alborz mountains) and oceanic plate subduction (e.g. makransubduction zone). to derive a detailed image of the crust–mantle (moho) and lithosphere–asthenosphere (lab) boundaries in some tectonically units of the iranian plateau, we used a large number of s receiver functio...

the khorasan region is one of the active seismic zones in iranian plateau, which is located between central iran and kopet-dagh zones. we study the crustal thickness (h) and vp/vs ratio (k) in mashhad, capital of razavi khorasan province by the receiver function method. this study uses teleseismic events recorded by an array of three broadband stations of khorasan seismic network, earthquake re...

in this study we use the p receiver function technique to determine the moho depth and vp/vs ratio for 8 short period stations of qochan and mashhad seismic networks and map the variations of moho depth under kope dagh region. it is shown that a receiver function can provide a relatively good point measurement of moho depth under a short period station. the crustal thickness estimated from the ...

iran is located in a roughly triangular deforming region, consisting of relatively undeformed shield areas to the southwest (arabia) and northeast and the more recently deformed, though currently inactive, southwest afghanistan block in the east. the current geological and tectonic setting of iran is due to the ongoing convergence between the arabian and eurasian plates, which resulted in the f...