2.5D seismic velocity modelling in the south-eastern Romanian Carpathians Orogen and its foreland

Tectonophysics

Volumn 410, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 273-291

  Bocin, Andrei ^a   Stephenson, Randell ^b   Tryggvason, Ari ^c   Panea, Ionelia ^a   Mocanu, Victor ^a   Hauser, Franz ^d   Matenco, Liviu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Tomographic inversion; Velocity model; Vrancea Zone

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; FORELAND BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 12544255950     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.05.045     Document Type: Article

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