Composition of the Uralide crust from seismic velocity (Vp, Vs), heat flow, gravity, and magnetic data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 333-349

  Brown, D ^a   Carbonell, R ^a   Kukkonen, I ^b   Ayala, C ^a   Golovanova, I ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Crustal composition; Petrophysical model; Uralides

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOMAGNETISM; GRAVITY; HEAT FLOW; PETROGRAPHY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0037677605     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00143-2     Document Type: Article

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