Three-dimensional structure of Vp, Vs and Vp/Vs in the upper crust of the Marmara region, NW Turkey

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1019-1038

  Bariş, Serif ^a   Nakajima, Junichi ^b   Hasegawa, Akira ^b   Honkura, Yoshimori ^a   Ito, Akihiko ^c   Balamir, S ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Marmara Sea; North Anatolian Fault Zone; seismic tomography; seismic velocity structure; seismic ity

Indexed keywords

UPPER CRUST; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

BALIKESIR; EURASIA; MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 29944441659     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351882     Document Type: Article

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