Architecture of the south-eastern Carpathians nappes and Focsani Basin (Romania) from 2D ray tracing of densely-spaced refraction data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 476, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 512-527

  Bocin, Andrei ^a,b   Stephenson, Randell ^b   Mocanu, Victor ^a   Matenco, Liviu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2D ray tracing; Focsani Basin; South eastern Carpathians; Velocity model; Vrancea Zone

Indexed keywords

2D RAY TRACING; FOCSANI BASIN; SOUTH-EASTERN CARPATHIANS; VELOCITY MODEL; VRANCEA ZONE;

BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; RAY TRACING; REFRACTION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

ACTIVE FAULT; BASEMENT ROCK; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; NAPPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAY TRACING; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER CRUST; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FOCSANI DEPRESSION; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VRANCEA;

EID: 70349774216     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.027     Document Type: Article

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