Crustal and upper mantle structure beneath the Corinth rift (Greece) from a teleseismic tomography study

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B12, 2000, Pages 28159-28171

  Tiberi, Christel ^a,b   Lyon Caen, Hélène ^c,g   Hatzfeld, Denis ^d   Achauer, Ulrich ^b   Karagianni, E ^e   Kiratzi, A ^e   Louvari, E ^e   Panagiotopoulos, D ^e   Kassaras, I ^f   Kaviris, G ^f   Makropoulos, K ^f   Papadimitriou, P ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

GREECE;

EID: 0034471342     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900216     Document Type: Article

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