Seismic wavespeed images across the Iapetus and Tornquist suture zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

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

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIPE FLOW; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ADJOINTS; BRITISH ISLES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; NORTH SEA; PALEOCONTINENTS; SEISMIC IMAGE; SEISMIC PROFILES; SUBSURFACE FEATURES; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; WAVESPEED;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SUTURE ZONE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84867018859     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053053     Document Type: Article

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