The deep structure of the North Anatolian Fault Zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 373, Issue , 2013, Pages 109-117

  Fichtner, Andreas ^a   Saygin, Erdinc ^b   Taymaz, Tuncay ^c   Cupillard, Paul ^d   Capdeville, Yann ^e   Trampert, Jeannot ^f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Medical School of Nancy   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continental strike slip faults; Full waveform inversion; North Anatolian Fault Zone; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DEEP STRUCTURE; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; HIGH VELOCITY; NEOTECTONICS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT ZONE; SURFACE EXPRESSION; VOLCANIC FIELD;

TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

VELOCITY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; FAULT ZONE; NEOTECTONICS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUTURE ZONE; TETHYS; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANATOLIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 84879028620     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.027     Document Type: Article

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