Upper-mantle structure of the Baltic Shield below the Swedish National Seismological Network (SNSN) resolved by teleseismic tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 617-630

  Eken, Tuna ^a   Shomali, Z Hossein ^a,b   Roberts, Roland ^a   Bödvarsson, Reynir ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ACH method; Baltic Shield; Lithosphere; Teleseismic tomography

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA;

EID: 34247206661     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03351.x     Document Type: Article

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