Upper-mantle structure beneath the Southern Scandes Mountains and the Northern Tornquist Zone revealed by P-wave traveltime tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1315-1334

  Medhus, A B ^a,g   Balling, N ^a   Jacobsen, B H ^a   Weidle, C ^b   England, R W ^c   Kind, R ^d   Thybo, H ^e   Voss, P ^f  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^g COWI A/S ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC; BASIN AREA; BODY WAVES; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; DENMARK; FIRST ORDER; GERMANY; GREAT DEPTH; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; INTEGRATED DATA; P-WAVE ARRIVAL; P-WAVE VELOCITY; REFERENCE MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; SCANDINAVIA; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SOUTHERN NORWAY; STUDY AREAS; TELESEISMIC EVENTS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMAL INFLUENCE; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY BOUNDARY; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

GEODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVE; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

BALTIC SHIELD; CALEDONIDES; NORWAY; OSLO RIFT; SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SWEDEN; TEISSEYRE-TORNQUIST ZONE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84860841429     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05449.x     Document Type: Article

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