Seismic discontinuities in the Mediterranean mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 148, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 233-250

  van der Meijde, M ^a,b   van der Lee, S ^a,c   Giardini, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuities; Lower mantle; Mediterranean; Receiver functions; Transition zone; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

CRUSTLE STRUCTURE; MANTLE; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES;

SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13244279465     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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