Constraints from Moho geometry and crustal thickness on the geodynamic origin of the Vrancea Seismogenic Zone (Romania)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 420, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 23-36

  Mucuta, Dana M ^a   Knapp, Camelia C ^a   Knapp, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal thickness; Delamination; Focsani Basin; Moho; Vrancea

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEODYNAMICS; MOHO; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

EID: 33744998531     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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