A dynamical model for generating sharp seismic velocity contrasts underneath continents: Application to the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 77-91

  Hieronymus, Christoph F ^a   Shomali, Z Hossein ^a,b   Pedersen, Laust B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

continental lithosphere; mantle convection; seismic tomography; seismic velocities; temperature; Tornquist Zone

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CONVECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ADVECTION; EROSION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EURASIA; TEISSEYRE-TORNQUIST ZONE;

EID: 34548837984     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.043     Document Type: Article

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