Upper mantle flow in the western Mediterranean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 200-214

  Panza, Giuliano F ^a,b   Raykova, Reneta B ^c   Carminati, Eugenio ^d   Doglioni, Carlo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

back arc basin; mantle flow; mantle stratification; Mediterranean geodynamics; shear wave velocity model

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC BASIN; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE STRATIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN GEODYNAMICS;

GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR WAVES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTH (PLANET);

ASTHENOSPHERE; BACKARC BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 34247158216     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.032     Document Type: Article

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