Precambrian Moho offset and tectonic stability of the East European platform from the URSEIS deep seismic profile

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-214

  Diaconescu, Camelia C ^a   Knapp, James H ^a   Brown, Larry D ^a   Steer, David N ^a   Stiller, Manfred ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; EUROPEAN PLATFORM; SEISMIC PROFILES; SOUTHERN URALS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PROCESS; TECTONIC STABILITY;

FAULTING;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; FAULT ZONE; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMIC PROFILE; TECTONICS; URSEIS;

MONO; URALS; EUROPE;

EID: 0031869287     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0211:PMOATS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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