Back arcs basins and P-wave crustal velocity in the Ionian and Aegean regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 527-530

  Alessandrini, Bruno ^a   Beranzoli, Laura ^a   Drakatos, George ^b,c   Falcone, Claudia ^a   Karantonis, George ^b,c   Mele, Francesco M ^a   Stavrakakis, George ^b,c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Geodynamic Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; EARTHQUAKES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OCEANOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

AEGEAN SEA; CRUST; IONIAN SEA; MANTLE; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES;

AEGEAN REGIONS; BACK-ARC BASIN; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; REGIONAL EARTHQUAKES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

BACKARC BASIN; BACKARC BASINS; CRUST; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE; P WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE;

AEGEAN SEA; IONIAN SEA;

EID: 0030615446     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00082     Document Type: Article

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