Deep-structural differences in southwestern Scandinavia revealed by P-wave travel time residuals

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-214

  Medhus, Anna Bondo ^a   Balling, Niels ^a   Jacobsen, Bo Holm ^a   Kind, Rainer ^b   England, Richard W ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OSLO RIFT; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 70849092890     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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