Crustal root beneath the highlands of southern Norway resolved by teleseismic receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1129-1138

  Svenningsen, Lasse ^a   Balling, N ^a   Jacobsen, B H ^a   Kind, R ^b   Wylegalla, K ^b   Schweitzer, J ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crustal root; Moho discontinuity; Receiver function; Southern Norway; Topography; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUSTAL ROOT; MOHO; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; EURASIA; EUROPE; HARDANGERVIDDA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OSLO RIFT; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34548134398     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03402.x     Document Type: Article

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