An upper-mantle S-wave velocity model for Northern Europe from Love and Rayleigh group velocities

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1154-1168

  Weidle, Christian ^a   Maupin, Valérie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Europe; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DATA INVERSION; LOVE WAVE; MAPPING; PLATE BOUNDARY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 57049182633     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03957.x     Document Type: Article

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