Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath the External Dinarides, Croatia, determined from teleseismic receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1103-1119

  Stipčević, Josip ^a   Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^b   Herak, Marijan ^a   Markušić, Snježana ^a   Herak, Davorka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body waves; Continental tectonics: compressional; Crustal structure; Europe

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; ADRIATIC; BODY WAVES; BROAD BANDS; CONTINENTAL TECTONICS; CROATIA; CROATIANS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING PROFILES; DINARIDES; EUROPE; FORWARD MODELLING; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GRAVIMETRIC DATA; GRID SEARCH; ISOTROPIC MODELS; MICROPLATES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOHO DEPTH; MOHO TOPOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-STEP; NON LINEAR INVERSION; NORTHERN ADRIATIC; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC PHASIS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TELESEISMIC EVENTS; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TRAVEL TIME; UPPERMOST MANTLE; WAVE FORMS;

SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

TECTONICS;

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVIMETRY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOHO; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALPS; CROATIA; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 79955988303     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05004.x     Document Type: Article

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