Receiver function images of the base of the lithosphere in the Alboran Sea region

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1019-1026

  Dündar, Süleyman ^a   Kind, Rainer ^a,b   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Bulut, Fatih ^a   Sodoudi, Forough ^a,b   Heit, Ben ^a   Kumar, Prakash ^a,c   Li, Xueqing ^a   Hanka, Winfried ^a   Martin, Rosa ^d   Stiller, Manfred ^a   Eken, Tuna ^a   Bianchi, Marcelo ^a   Buforn, Elisa ^e   Davila, Jose Martin ^f  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f Real Observatorio de la Armada   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coda waves; Continental margins: convergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle

Indexed keywords

ALBORAN SEA; CODA WAVES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; NORTH AFRICA; PORTUGAL; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC STATION; TELESEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

LABORATORIES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CODA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DISCONTINUITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ALBORAN SEA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA; SPAIN;

EID: 80054700627     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05216.x     Document Type: Article

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