The bright spot in the West Carpathian upper mantle: A trace of the Tertiary plate collision - and a caveat for a seismologist

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Środa, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: compressional; Controlled source seismology; Crustal structure; Europe

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; COLLISION ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TECTONIC SETTING; TERTIARY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 77954630804     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04595.x     Document Type: Article

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