Study of the crystalline crust from a two-ship normal-incidence and wide-angle experiment

Tectonophysics

Volumn 286, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 79-91

  Singh, Satish C ^a   Hague, Philip J ^a   McCaughey, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lower crust; Normal incidence; Tomography; Under plating; Waveform inversion; Wide angle

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0031817089     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00256-4     Document Type: Article

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