A crustal seismic velocity model for the UK, Ireland and surrounding seas

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1172-1184

  Kelly, Annabel ^a,b   England, Richard W ^a   Maguire, Peter K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Europe; Moho discontinuity; P waves; Seismic structure; Seismic velocities

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VARIOGRAM; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36348952081     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03569.x     Document Type: Article

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