Isostatic compensation in Western Anatolia with estimate of the effective elastic thickness

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 545-557

  Pamukçu, Oya ^a   Yurdakul, Ayça ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Admittance analysis; Effective elastic thickness; Gravity; Isostatic response functions; Western Anatolia

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749130382     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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