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Two subduction-related heterogeneities beneath the Eastern Alps and the Bohemian Massif imaged by high-resolution P-wave tomography
Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 141 31 Prague,
Czech Republic
Helena Žlebčíková
Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 141 31 Prague,
Czech Republic
György Hetényi
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland
Luděk Vecsey
Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 141 31 Prague,
Czech Republic
Vladislav Babuška
Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 141 31 Prague,
Czech Republic
deceased
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Short summary
We present high-resolution tomography images of upper mantle structure beneath the E Alps and the adjacent Bohemian Massif. The northward-dipping lithosphere, imaged down to ∼200 km beneath the E Alps without signs of delamination, is probably formed by a mixture of a fragment of detached European plate and the Adriatic plate subductions. A detached high-velocity anomaly, sub-parallel to and distinct from the E Alps heterogeneity, is imaged at ∼100–200 km beneath the southern part of the BM.
We present high-resolution tomography images of upper mantle structure beneath the E Alps and...
