Tracing the influence of the Trans-European Suture Zone into the mantle transition zone

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Knapmeyer-Endrun, B. - Krüger, F. - Legendre, C. P. - Geissler, W.H. - Plomerová, Jaroslava - Babuška, Vladislav - Gaždová, Renata - Jedlička, Petr - Kolínský, Petr - Málek, Jiří - Novotný, Oldřich - Růžek, Bohuslav … celkem 43 autorů
Tracing the influence of the Trans-European Suture Zone into the mantle transition zone.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Roč. 363, FEB 1 (2013), s. 73-87. ISSN 0012-821X. E-ISSN 1385-013X
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985530 ; RVO:67985891
Klíčová slova: mantle transition zone * Trans-European Suture Zone * East European Craton
Kód oboru RIV: DC - Seismologie, vulkanologie a struktura Země
Impakt faktor: 4.724, rok: 2013

Cratons with their thick lithospheric roots can influence the thermal structure, and thus the convective flow, in the surrounding mantle. As mantle temperatures are hard to measure directly, depth variations in the mantle transition zone (MTZ) discontinuities are often employed as a proxy. Here, we use a large new data set of P-receiver functions to map the 410 km and 660 km discontinuities beneath the western edge of the East European Craton and adjacent Phanerozoic Europe across the most fundamental lithospheric boundary in Europe, the Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ). We observe significantly shorter travel times for conversions from both MTZ discontinuities within the craton, caused by the high velocities of the cratonic root.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0229022