Insights into the evolution of the Italian lithospheric structure from S receiver function analysis

MS Miller, NP Agostinetti - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
To advance our understanding of the complex and episodic tectonic history of the central
Mediterranean, we image the characteristics and structure of the convergent African and …

Seismic tomographic imaging of P- and S-waves velocity perturbations in the upper mantle beneath Iran

A Alinaghi, I Koulakov, H Thybo - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The inverse tomography method has been used to study the P-and S-waves velocity
structure of the crust and upper mantle underneath Iran. The method, based on the principle …

High-resolution 3-D P-wave model of the Alpine crust

T Diehl, S Husen, E Kissling… - Geophysical Journal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The 3-DP-wave velocity structure of the Alpine crust has been determined from local
earthquake tomography using a set of high-quality traveltime data. The application of an …

Evidence for anomalous mantle upwelling beneath the Arabian Platform from travel time tomography inversion

I Koulakov, E Burov, S Cloetingh, S El Khrepy, N Al-Arifi… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a new model of P-velocity anomalies in the upper mantle beneath the Arabian
Peninsula, Red Sea, and surrounding regions. This model was computed with the use of …

Upper mantle beneath the Eger Rift (Central Europe): plume or asthenosphere upwelling?

J Plomerová, U Achauer, V Babuška… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We present the first results of a high-resolution teleseismic traveltime tomography and
seismic anisotropy study of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system beneath the western …

3D shear-wave velocity structure of the Eifel plume, Germany

M Keyser, JRR Ritter, M Jordan - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2002 - Elsevier
The Quaternary Eifel volcanic fields, situated on the Rhenish Massif in Germany, are the
focus of a major interdisciplinary project. The aim is a detailed study of the crustal and …

Joint inversion for three‐dimensional S velocity mantle structure along the Tethyan margin

SJ Chang, S Van Der Lee, MP Flanagan… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a new three‐dimensional S velocity model and Moho map by jointly inverting
regional S and Rayleigh waveform fits, teleseismic S and SKS arrival times, fundamental …

Further evidence for the 'Lay discontinuity'beneath northern Siberia and the North Atlantic from short-period P-waves recorded in France

S Houard, HC Nataf - Physics of the earth and planetary interiors, 1992 - Elsevier
We analyze data from the French Laboratoire de Detection Geophysique (LDG) network of
digital short-period seismic stations. The P-waves from several earthquakes in the Kuril …

Tomographic inversions for mantle P wave velocity structure based on the minimization of l 2 and l 1 norms of International Seismological Centre Travel Time …

RJ Pulliam, DW Vasco… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
We use International Seismological Centre (ISC) P arrival data (1964–1987) and iterative
algorithms which minimize the l1 and l2 residual norms to solve simultaneously for three …

The relative behavior of shear velocity, bulk sound speed, and compressional velocity in the mantle: Implications for chemical and thermal structure

G Masters, G Laske, H Bolton… - Geophysical …, 2000 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Despite immense progress in imaging seismic velocity anomalies in the mantle over the past
15 years, we still know relatively little about their physical cause. One way to shed some light …