An integrated gravity model for Europe's crust and upper mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 195-209

  Kaban, M K ^a   Tesauro, M ^a,b   Cloetingh, S ^b  

^a Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Germany)

^b Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D gravity modeling; Density structure; Lithosphere; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DENSITY ANOMALIES; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DENSITY VARIATIONS; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY FIELD MODEL; GRAVITY MODEL; GRAVITY MODELING; HIGHER RESOLUTION; KEY FEATURE; MANTLE HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MINERAL PHYSICS; RESIDUAL FIELD; S VELOCITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER MANTLE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; SEISMOLOGY; SITE SELECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

EUROPE;

EID: 77954657667     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.041     Document Type: Article

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