Moho and uppermost mantle structure in the Alpine area from S-to-P converted waves

Kind, Rainer; Schmid, Stefan M.; Yuan, Xiaohui; Heit, Benjamin; Meier, Thomas; the AlpArray and AlpArray-SWATH-D Working Groups,

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2503-2021

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04 Nov 2021

Research article |

| 04 Nov 2021

Moho and uppermost mantle structure in the Alpine area from S-to-P converted waves

Rainer Kind, Stefan M. Schmid, Xiaohui Yuan, Benjamin Heit, Thomas Meier, and the AlpArray and AlpArray-SWATH-D Working Groups

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2503-2021-supplement

Data sets

European Integrated Data Archive ORFEUS http://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida

Model code and software

Seismic Handler SH development team https://seismic-handler.org

Short summary

A large amount of new seismic data from the greater Alpine area have been obtained within the AlpArray and SWATH-D projects. S-to-P converted seismic phases from the Moho and from the mantle lithosphere have been processed with a newly developed method. Examples of new observations are a rapid change in Moho depth at 13° E below the Tauern Window from 60 km in the west to 40 km in the east and a second Moho trough along the boundary of the Bohemian Massif towards the Western Carpathians.