A new passive tomography of the Aigion area (Gulf of Corinth, Greece) from the 2002 data set

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 431-453

  Gautier, S ^b   Latorre, D ^c   Virieux, J ^a   Deschamps, A ^a   Skarpelos, C ^d   Sotiriou, A ^d   Serpetsidaki, A ^d   Tselentis, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gulf of Corinth; Low angle detachment; Rifting; Seismic tomography; Vp.Vs; Vp Vs

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33645313223     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-005-0033-7     Document Type: Article

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