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The application of iterative imaging techniques has enabled a detailed mapping of the P-wave velocity heterogeneity in large parts of the Upper Mantle beneath Central Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East (Spakman, 1985). More than half a million ISC P delay times are simultanuously inverted for estimates of seismic wave velocity anomalies, earthquake relocation parameters and near station velocity anomalies. In principle the employed tomographic method is based on a division of the Upper Mantle area in a large number of cells and a linearization of the travel time integral with respect to a reference velocity model.
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Spakman, W. (1989). Tomographic Mapping of the Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Alpine Collision Belt. In: Hart, S.R., Gülen, L. (eds) Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones. NATO ASI Series, vol 258. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0895-6_16
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