Depth to Moho in Greeland: Receiver-function analysis suggests two proterozoic blocks in Greenland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 379-393

  Dahl Jensen, Trine ^a   Larsen, Tine B ^b   Woelbern, Ingo ^c   Bach, Torben ^b,d   Hanka, Winfried ^c   Kind, Rainer ^c   Gregersen, Søren ^b   Mosegaard, Klaus ^e   Voss, Peter ^b,e   Gudmundsson, Olafur ^f  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen   (Denmark)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; Greenland; Receiver functions

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MOHO; P-WAVE; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC SURVEY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0037428124     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01080-4     Document Type: Article

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