The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary in the North-West Atlantic region

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 249-257

  Kumar, P ^a,b   Kind, R ^a,c   Hanka, W ^a   Wylegalla, K ^a   Reigber, Ch ^a   Yuan, X ^a   Woelbern, I ^a   Schwintzer, P ^a   Fleming, Kevin ^a   Dahl Jensen, T ^d   Larsen, T B ^d   Schweitzer, Johannes ^e   Priestley, Keith ^f   Gudmundsson, Og ^g   Wolf, Dasca ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^e NORSAR   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Greenland; Iceland; Lithosphere asthenosphere boundary; S receiver functions

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC TECHNIQUES;

EARTH SCIENCES; ELASTIC MODULI; GEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEISMOLOGY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

TECTONICS;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 22144468716     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.029     Document Type: Article

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