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Crustal Structure in the Surroundings of the KTB Drill Site as Derived from Refraction and Wide-Angle Seismic Observations

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The German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB)

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The first knowledge of the seismic crustal structure in the Oberpfalz area came from large-scale refraction surveys carried out during the 1960’s and early 1970’s utilizing quarryblasts (Giese 1968, 1976; Peters 1974). The pertinent quarries were situated near Böhmischbruck and Mauthaus (Fig. 1). Because of the large spacing between receivers (about 5 km), common in those times, only some rough information on crustal thickness, average velocities, and the existence of a low velocity layer in the middle of the crust could be established. In the light of later investigations (Strößenreuther 1982), a systematic decrease of crustal thickness from 33 km in the Moldanubian (MN) of the southern Oberpfälzer Wald to 30 km in the Saxothuringian (ST) beneath the Fichtelgebirge (Peters 1974) became evident. Moreover, the results indicated an increase of the crustal average velocity from SE to NW.

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Gebrande, H., Bopp, M., Neurieder, P., Schmidt, T. (1989). Crustal Structure in the Surroundings of the KTB Drill Site as Derived from Refraction and Wide-Angle Seismic Observations. In: Emmermann, R., Wohlenberg, J. (eds) The German Continental Deep Drilling Program (KTB). Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74588-1_8

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