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Heit, Benjamin; Yuan, Xiaohui; Mancilla, Flor de Lis (2010): High Resolution Seismological Profiling across Sierra Nevada (HIRE). GFZ Data Services. Dataset/Seismic Network. doi:10.14470/4P7565788335.

Identifier

10.14470/4P7565788335

FDSN network code

9C

DataCite metadata

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Terms/rights

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Creator(s)

Heit, Benjamin ; Yuan, Xiaohui ; Mancilla, Flor de Lis

Description

• (Abstract) We operated a densely spaced broadband seismic field experiment to study the structure of the crust and mantle lithosphere across the Sierra Nevada mountain range, southern Spain. The Sierra Nevada is one of the key areas within the complicated Betic-Alboran-Rif system. It contains the highest mountain of the Iberian Peninsula and is located in the close vicinity of a very deep seismic zone (>600 km depth). This region plays a decisive role in answering the question if subduction or delamination is the dominant geological process in the western Mediterranean. The seismic array, consisting of 40 broadband stations spaced 2 km apart (compared to earlier station spacing of ~50 km), has been deployed in September 2010 by a joint effort of GFZ Potsdam and University of Granada, and has been operated until the end of 2011. The proposed scientific work is the analysis of the data collected with the present experiment which includes mainly P and S receiver function analysis and surface wave tomography with ambient noise data. We will image the seismic structure and thickness variation of the crust and mantle lithosphere at high resolution and hence infer tectonic and geodynamic processes related to the Africa-Eurasia collision. The resulting structural details especially of the mantle lithosphere will contribute essentially to the recognition of the geodynamic deformations in the western part of the African-Eurasian plate collision. Data are available from the GFZ seismological data archive.

Title

High Resolution Seismological Profiling across Sierra Nevada (HIRE)

Publisher

GFZ Data Services

Publication Year

2010

Resource Type

Dataset / Seismic Network

Dates

1. Collected 2010-06-29/2011-12-31
2. Submitted Before 2013-12-12
3. Issued Before 2013-12-12
4. Accepted 2010-06-29
5. Created 2015-12-22

Place(s)

1. Spain

Contributor(s)

• Hosting institution: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
• Data collector: GEOFON Data Centre
• Distributor: GEOFON Data Centre
• Data manager: GEOFON Data Centre
• Sponsor: Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam (GIPP)
• Project leader: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ

Subjects

• SeisData terms: GIPP Geophysics MESI MiniSEED Passive seismic Seismometers Temporary Velocity
• GCMD keywords: Earthquakes Seismological stations Geophysical stations/networks Seismometers
• Other terms: Monitoring system; Seismological stations

Funding Reference(s)

1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ (GIPP201016)

Language

en

Sizes

1. 388GB

Reference(s)

FDSN network code

9C

Network dates

2010–2011

Data time range

2010–2011

Station Count

41

Seismic metadata

fdsnws-station FDSN StationXML SC3 XML

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