EPmantle: A 3-D transversely isotropic model of the upper mantle under the European Plate

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 469-484

  Schivardi, Renata ^a   Morelli, Andrea ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Europe; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; CENOZOIC; EARTH STRUCTURES; EUROPE; GROUP VELOCITIES; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INVERSION SCHEME; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOCAL DISPERSION; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROPLATES; NON-LINEAR; PRIORI INFORMATION; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RAYLEIGH; REGIONAL SCALE; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODELS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MODEL; UPPER MANTLE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; EURASIAN PLATE; GEODYNAMICS; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE DISPERSION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 79952668650     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04953.x     Document Type: Article

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