The oceanic nature of the African slab subducted under Peloponnesus: Thin-layer resolution from multiscale analysis of teleseismic P-to-S converted waves

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 833-849

  Gesret, A ^a,b   Laigle, M ^a   Diaz, J ^c   Sachpazi, M ^d   Hirn, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Africa; Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Europe; Subduction zone processes; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; CONVERTED WAVE; EUROPE; FULL-WAVEFORMS; HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; LITHOSPHERIC SLAB; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; MULTISCALES; OCEANIC CRUST; SLAB MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC; THIN LAYERS; UPPER PLATE;

FREQUENCY BANDS; STANDARDS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BODY WAVE; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; EUROPE;

EID: 77958553422     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04738.x     Document Type: Article

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