Tomographic image of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Ionian and Aegean regions

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 151-160

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

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ray tracing; Subduction; Travel time inversion

Indexed keywords

CRUST; INVERSION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031448347     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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