A natural and controlled source seismic profile through the Eastern Alps: TRANSALP
| Autor: | Jörn Kummerow, Rainer Kind, Onno Oncken, P. Giese, Trond Ryberg, Kurt Wylegalla, F. Scherbaum, TRANSALP Working Group |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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geography
geography.geographical_feature_category Crust 550 - Earth sciences Fault (geology) Induced seismicity Natural (archaeology) Geophysics Space and Planetary Science Geochemistry and Petrology Maximum depth Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Institut für Geowissenschaften Shear zone Foreland basin Seismology Geology Controlled source |
| Zdroj: | Earth and Planetary Science Letters |
| Popis: | The combined passive and active seismic TRANSALP experiment produced an unprecedented high-resolution crustal image of the Eastern Alps between Munich and Venice. The European and Adriatic Mohos (EM and AM, respectively) are clearly imaged with different seismic techniques: near-vertical incidence reflections and receiver functions (RFs). The European Moho dips gently southward from 35 km beneath the northern foreland to a maximum depth of 55 km beneath the central part of the Eastern Alps, whereas the Adriatic Moho is imaged primarily by receiver functions at a relatively constant depth of about 40 km. In both data sets, we have also detected first-order Alpine shear zones, such as the Helvetic detachment, Inntal fault and SubTauern ramp in the north. Apart from the Valsugana thrust, receiver functions in the southern part of the Eastern Alps have also observed a north dipping interface, which may penetrate the entire Adriatic crust [Adriatic Crust Interface (ACI)]. Deep crustal seismicity may be related to the ACI. We interpret the ACI as the currently active retroshear zone in the doubly vergent Alpine collisional belt. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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