the targeted area of this research includes e anatoly, nw zagros, and caucasus. these structures are known as a complex and active area and in the early stage of continent-continent collision, which give us unique possibility to monitor such collision in real time. therefore, it is very important to study this active area to have a better knowledge about its tectonic behavior and lithospheric s...

[1] Sp and Ps converted seismic waves at 93 permanent seismic stations are used to image upper mantle velocity discontinuities across the contiguous United States and portions of southeast Canada and northwest Mexico. Receiver functions are calculated with frequency‐ domain deconvolution and migrated with 1D models that account for variations in crustal structure and mantle velocities between s...

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 surface of Mars consists of an old, heavily cratered and elevated southern hemisphere and younger, resurfaced and depressed northern hemisphere, a feature often termed the crustal dichotomy. The global crustal structure [Zuber et al., 2000] revealed by topography and gravity data from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, and the possible late formation of the boundary zone between the hemis...

We use two-plane-wave tomography with a dense network of seismic stations across Sabah, northern Borneo, to image the shear wave velocity structure crust and upper mantle. Our model is used estimate crustal thickness depth lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath region. Calculated ranges between 25 55 km suggests extension in NW-SE direction, presumably due back-arc processes associate...

The mobility of the lithosphere over a weaker asthenosphere constitutes the essential element of plate tectonics, and thus the understanding of the processes at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) is fundamental to understand how our planet works. It is especially so for oceanic plates because their relatively simple creation and evolution should enable easy elucidation of the LAB. Dat...

We developed a kinematic earthquake cycle model applicable to transform fault zones, subduction zones, and collision zones on the basis of elastic dislocation theory. The crustal deformation associated with the periodic occurrence of interplate earthquakes is generally given by the superposition of viscoelastic responses to steady slip on the whole plate boundary, steady back slip on the seismi...