P- and S-velocity anomalies in the upper mantle beneath Europe from tomographic inversion of ISC data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 345-366

  Koulakov, I ^a,b   Kaban, M K ^b,c   Tesauro, M ^b,d   Cloetingh, S ^d  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Europe; Mantle processes; Seismic tomography; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; MANTLE PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EGER; EIFEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HEVES; HUNGARY; RHENISH SCHIEFERGEBIRGE; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 69249084807     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04279.x     Document Type: Article

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