Reflection of seismic surface waves at the northern Apennines

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 149-158

  Stich, Daniel ^a   Morelli, Andrea ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D waveform modelling; deep crustal structure; multipathing; seismogram coda; surface waves

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURFACE WAVE;

RAYLEIGH WAVES; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250629657     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.036     Document Type: Article

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