New constraints on the 3D shear wave velocity structure of the upper mantle underneath Southern Scandinavia revealed from non-linear tomography

Tectonophysics

Volumn 602, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-54

  Wawerzinek, B ^a   Ritter, J R R ^a   Roy, C ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Mantle processes; Relative travel time residuals; Seismic tomography; Shear waves; Southern Scandinavia

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MANTLE PROCESS; PERTURBATION PATTERNS; SCANDINAVIA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANOMALY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NEOGENE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRANSITION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

BALTIC SHIELD; EAST EUROPEAN CRATON; NORWAY; OSLO RIFT; SCANDES MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84881090394     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.12.033     Document Type: Article

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