Segmented African lithosphere beneath the Anatolian region inferred from teleseismic P-wave tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1037-1057

  Berk Biryol, C ^a   Beck, Susan L ^a   Zandt, George ^a   Özacar, A Arda ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Mantle processes; Seismic tomography; Subduction zone processes; Transform faults

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MANTLE PROCESSES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; FREQUENCY BANDS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AFRICA; CYPRUS; GREECE;

EID: 79951575781     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04910.x     Document Type: Article

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