Correlated shear and bulk moduli to 1400 km beneath the Mediterranean region

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 159, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 213-224

  Schmid, C ^a   van der Lee, S ^b   Giardini, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint inversion; Mantle; Mediterranean region; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

BULK SOUND VELOCITY HETEROGENEITY; JOINT INVERSION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

SEISMIC WAVES;

BULK MODULUS; DATA INVERSION; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOUND VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33750517759     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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