Seismic imaging and modelling of the lithosphere of SW-Iberia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 472, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 148-157

  Flecha, I ^a   Palomeras, I ^a   Carbonell, R ^a   Simancas, F ^b   Ayarza, P ^c   Matas, J ^d   Gonzalez Lodeiro F ^b   Perez Estaun A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crustal heterogeneities; Mafic intrusions; Wide angle stack

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VELOCITY; CRUSTAL DEPTH; CRUSTAL HETEROGENEITIES; CRUSTAL LEVELS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; HIGH VARIABILITY; HIGH VELOCITY; LAYERED MAFIC INTRUSION; LAYERED STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC INTRUSIONS; MAIN EVENT; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SEISMIC CHARACTER; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC SIGNATURES; VELOCITY MODEL; WIDE-ANGLE STACK;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MODELING; MOHO; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STACKING; STOCHASTICITY; TERRANE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349173557     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.033     Document Type: Article

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