A 3D Vs model of the upper mantle beneath Italy: Insight on the geodynamics of central Mediterranean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 105-120

  Giacomuzzi, G ^a   Civalleri, M ^a   De Gori, P ^a   Chiarabba, C ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Delamination; Mediterranean upper mantle; Poisson ratio; S wave tomography; Subduction; Tear

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; BROAD BANDS; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; HIGH RESOLUTION; JOINT ANALYSIS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SLAB BREAK-OFF; SLAB WINDOWS; SUBDUCTION; TEAR; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; VELOCITY PATTERNS;

DELAMINATION; LITHOLOGY; POISSON RATIO; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DELAMINATION; ECLOGITE; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

ALPS; APENNINES; EASTERN ALPS; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84862249629     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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