Joint inversion of local, regional and teleseismic data for crustal thickness in the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary region

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 499-514

  Marone, Federica ^a   van der Meijde, Mark ^a   van der Lee, Suzan ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Broad band; Isostasy; Mediterranean; Moho discontinuity; Rayleigh waves; Waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

MAP; MOHO; PLATE BOUNDARY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0042624766     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01973.x     Document Type: Article

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