Can local earthquake tomography settle the matter about subduction in the Northern and Central Apennines? Response from a new high resolution P velocity and Vp/Vs ratio 3-D model

Tectonophysics

Volumn 554-557, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-73

  Scafidi, D ^a   Solarino, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apennines; Asthenospheric upwelling; Seismic tomography; Subduction

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; APENNINES; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; DEEP STRUCTURE; ITALIAN PENINSULA; LOCAL TOMOGRAPHY; LOW VELOCITIES; NEO GENES; NEW HIGH; NONUNIQUENESS; P-VELOCITY; SEISMIC GAPS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SMALL AREA; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TUSCANY;

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; SEISMOGRAPHS; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASTHENOSPHERE; DATA INVERSION; NEOGENE; P-WAVE; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPWELLING;

APENNINES; ITALIAN PENINSULA; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 84863781691     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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