High-resolution teleseismic body-wave tomography beneath SE Romania - I. Implications for three-dimensional versus one-dimensional crustal correction strategies with a new crustal velocity model

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 448-460

  Martin, M ^a   Ritter, J R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crust; Lithosphere; Romania; Seismology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 27744538836     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02661.x     Document Type: Review

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