High resolution 3D P wave velocity structure beneath Tenerife Island (Canary Islands, Spain) based on tomographic inversion of active-source data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  García Yeguas, Araceli ^a,b   Koulakov, Ivan ^c   Ibáñez, Jesús M ^a,b   Rietbrock, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; FUMAROLE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MAGMA CHAMBER; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STRATOVOLCANO; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CANADAS VOLCANO; CANARY ISLANDS; PICO VIEJO; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TEIDE; TENERIFE;

EID: 84867011883     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008970     Document Type: Article

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