Imaging the subducted slab under the Calabrian Arc, Italy, from receiver function analysis

Lithosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 131-138

  Agostinetti, Nicola Piana ^a   Steckler, Michael S ^b   Lucente, Francesco Pio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SOUTHERN APENNINES; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) IMAGES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

APENNINES; CALABRIAN ARC; ITALY;

EID: 78650477351     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L49.1     Document Type: Article

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