High-resolution body wave tomography beneath the SVEKALAPKO array: I. A priori three-dimensional crustal model and associated traveltime effects on teleseismic wave fronts

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-87

  Sandoval, Senén ^a   Kissling, Edi ^a   Ansorge, Jörg ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Baltic Shield; Crustal structure; High resolution teleseismic tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME;

EUROPE;

EID: 0037393280     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01888.x     Document Type: Article

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