Structure of the European upper mantle revealed by adjoint tomography

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 493-498

  Zhu, Hejun ^a   Bozdaǧ, Ebru ^a   Peter, Daniel ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DELAMINATION; GRABEN; INVERSION TECTONICS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC PLATE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING; VOLCANISM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALPS; CARPATHIANS; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EIFEL; GERMANY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RHINE GRABEN; RHINELAND-PALATINATE; SCANDINAVIA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84863316268     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1501     Document Type: Article

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