Large-scale three-dimensional gravity analysis of the lithosphere below the transition zone from Western Europe to the East European Platform

Tectonophysics

Volumn 314, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 83-100

  Yegorova, T P ^a   Starostenko, V I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Crust upper mantle structure; East European Platform; Gravity modelling; Tornquist Teisseyre Zone (TTZ); Western Europe

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY SURVEY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUTURE ZONE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033545038     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00238-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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