Seismic structure across the Caledonian Deformation Front along MONA LISA profile 1 in the southeastern North Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 288, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 153-176

  Abramovitz, Tanni ^a,b   Thybo, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltica; Caledonian collision; Crustal suture zone; E. Avalonia; Lithospheric velocity structure; Moho; MONA LISA; Seismic data

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN COLLISION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0031843122     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00290-4     Document Type: Article

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