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Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-2633-2021
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Orogenic lithosphere and slabs in the greater Alpine area – interpretations based on teleseismic P-wave tomography

Mark R. Handy, Stefan M. Schmid, Marcel Paffrath, Wolfgang Friederich, and the AlpArray Working Group

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New images from the multi-national AlpArray experiment illuminate the Alps from below. They indicate thick European mantle descending beneath the Alps and forming blobs that are mostly detached from the Alps above. In contrast, the Adriatic mantle in the Alps is much thinner. This difference helps explain the rugged mountains and the abundance of subducted and exhumed units at the core of the Alps. The blobs are stretched remnants of old ocean and its margins that reach down to at least 410 km.
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