Tomographic evidence of slab detachment beneath eastern Turkey and the Caucasus

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1273-1282

  Zor, Ekrem ^a  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continental neotectonics; Crustal structure; Seismic tomography; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CAUCASUS; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 57049152523     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03946.x     Document Type: Article

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