Crust-mantle boundary in the central Fennoscandian shield: Constraints from wide-angle P and S wave velocity models and new results of reflection profiling in Finland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Janik, Tomasz ^a   Kozlovskaya, Elena ^b   Yliniemi, Jukka ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MOHO; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34250690765     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004681     Document Type: Article

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