Seismic tomography from local crustal earthquakes beneath eastern Rif Mountains of Morocco

Tectonophysics

Volumn 367, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 187-201

  Serrano, Inmaculada ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Morales, José ^b,c   Torcal, Federico ^b,d  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alboran Sea; Gouge zone; Low velocity zone; Seismicity; Strike slip fault; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TOMOGRAPHY;

MOROCCO; RIF;

EID: 0038507412     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00100-8     Document Type: Article

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