The Adriatic lithosphere is a promontory of the African plate: Evidence of a continuous mantle lid in the Ionian Sea from efficient Sn propagation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 431-434

  Mele, G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONTINUOUS LITHOSPHERES;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034744788     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012148     Document Type: Article

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