Continental vs. oceanic lithosphere beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea - Implications from Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements

Tectonophysics

Volumn 457, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 42-52

  Erduran, Murat ^a   Endrun, Brigitte ^b   Meier, Thomas ^c  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Inversion; Lithosphere; Phase velocity; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; FAULT ZONE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOHO; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE VELOCITY;

ANATOLIA; ASIA; CRETE; CYPRUS; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKEY;

EID: 49449083768     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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