From the Variscan to the Alpine Orogeny: Crustal structure of the Bohemian Massif and the Western Carpathians in the light of the SUDETES 2003 seismic data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 611-633

  Hrubcova P ^a   Sroda P ^b   Grad, M ^c   Geissler, W H ^d   Guterch, A ^b   Vozar J ^e   Hegedus, E ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^f GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Body waves; Continental margins: convergent; Controlled source seismology; Crustal structure; Europe

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CONTINENTAL MARGINS: CONVERGENT; CONTROLLED SOURCE SEISMOLOGY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EUROPE;

SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALPINE OROGENY; BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FORWARD MODELING; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MOHO; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 77958560245     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04766.x     Document Type: Article

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