Uplift of Northern Scandinavia
Abstract
Between July 2008 and September 2009 12 SEIS-UK broadband seismometers supplemented with 4 broadband seismometers and 5 semi-permanent seismometers operated by the University of Uppsala were deployed across northern Scandinavia in a 500 km long profile. 5 instruments in remote locations without mains power were deployed with wind turbines to maintain battery charge over the winter. Of these only the turbine placed in clear open ground charging a single large battery powered the instrument throughout the winter. The other instruments shut down between late October and late February. Data recovery was c. 85%, excluding the winter downtime, yielding 84 MB > 6.0 events for Receiver Function analysis. The data are currently being processed and preliminary results of Receiver Function analysis and SKS splitting are presented here.
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Uplift of Northern Scandinavia (1.5 Mb)Selected external publications resulting from this GEF loan
- Ben Mansour, W., England, R.W., Fishwick, S. and Moorkamp, M., 2018, Crustal properties of the northern Scandinavian mountains and Fennoscandian shield from analysis of teleseismic receiver functions, Geophysical Journal International, 214(1), p386-401, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggy140
- Kohler, A., Maupin, V. and Balling, N., 2015, Surface wave tomography across the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone, SW Scandinavia, using ambient noise and earthquake data, Geophysical Journal International, 203(1), pp284-311, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv297
- Kolstrup, M.L., Hung, S.H. and Maupin, V., 2015, Multiscale, finite-frequency P and S tomography of the upper mantle in the southwestern Fennoscandian Shield, Geophysical Journal International, 202(1), pp190-218, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv130
- Ebbing, J., England, R., Lauritsen, T., Olsen, O., Stratford, W. and Weidle, C., 2012, Structure of the Scandes lithosphere from surface to depth, Tectonophysics, 536-537, pp1-24, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.02.016
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