Delamination or slab detachment beneath Vrancea? New arguments from local earthquake tomography

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Koulakov, Ivan ^a,b   Zaharia, Bogdan ^c   Enescu, Bogdan ^d   Radulian, M ^c   Popa, M ^c   Parolai, Stefano ^b   Zschau, J ^b  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EARTH PHYSICS   (Romania)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delamination; Seismic tomography; Slab detachment; Vrancea (Romania)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949405733     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002811     Document Type: Article

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