Shape and origin of the East-Alpine slab constrained by the ALPASS teleseismic model

Tectonophysics

Volumn 510, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 195-206

  Mitterbauer, Ulrike ^a   Behm, Michael ^b   Brückl, Ewald ^c   Lippitsch, Regina ^d   Guterch, Alexander ^e   Keller, G Randy ^f   Koslovskaya, Elena ^g   Rumpfhuber, Eva Maria ^f   Sumanovac, Franjo ^h  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d OMV Group   (Austria)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Eastern Alps; Extrusion; Pannonian fragment; Subduction; Teleseismic tomography; Upper mantle structure

Indexed keywords

EASTERN ALPS; PANNONIAN FRAGMENT; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EXTRUSION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 80052714533     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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