Three-dimensional P wave attenuation and velocity upper mantle tomography of the southern Apennines-Calabrian Arc subduction zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Monna, Stephen ^a,b   Dahm, Torsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SET; DEHYDRATION MELTING; FLUID FLOW; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC WEDGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

APENNINES; CALABRIAN ARC; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349411676     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005677     Document Type: Article

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