mountain belts
In the 80's and 90's deep seismic reflection surveys, initially developped by the oil exploration industr to image the internal structure of sedimentary basins, were intensively used to explore the structure of the top 60 to 70 km of continental lithospheres. The French-Italian ECORS-CROP ALP Deep seismic traverse program offers a unique view on the European Alps...
@ R. Marchant (Univ. Lausanne)