Transitional continental-oceanic structure beneath the Norwegian Sea from inversion of surface wave group velocity data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 433-446

  Midzi, V ^a,b,c   Singh, D D ^a,b,c   Atakan, K ^a,b,c   Havskov, J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Goetz Observatory   (Zimbabwe)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Crust; Lithosphere; Norwegian Sea; Seismic resolution; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; SURFACE WAVE;

NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0033377719     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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