Upper mantle structure of the Aegean derived from two-station phase velocities of fundamental mode Rayleigh waves

Developments in Volcanology

Volumn 7, Issue C, 2005, Pages 19-45

  Kassaras, I ^a   Makropoulos, K ^a   Bourova, E ^b,c   Pedersen, H ^b   Hatzfeld, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aegean region, Rayleigh wave, dispersion, inversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549116447     PISSN: 1871644X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1871-644X(05)80031-2     Document Type: Chapter

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