From underplating to delamination-retreat in the northern Apennines

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 403, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-116

  Chiarabba, C ^a   Giacomuzzi, G ^a   Bianchi, I ^b   Agostinetti, N P ^c   Park, J ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apennines; Continental delamination; Mantle structure; Receiver functions

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; LITHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

APENNINES; BROAD-BAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BROADBAND DATA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DELAMINATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENY; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UNDERPLATING;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84904260205     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.041     Document Type: Article

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