Detecting the limit of slab break-off in central Turkey: New high-resolution Pn tomography results

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1566-1572

  Gans, Christine R ^a   Beck, Susan L ^a   Zandt, George ^a   Biryol, C Berk ^a   Ozacar, A Arda ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental margins: transform; Interface waves; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EURASIAN PLATE; FAULT ZONE; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70450173614     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04389.x     Document Type: Article

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