Weidle, C., Maupin, V., Ritter, J., Kvaerna, T., Schweitzer, J., Balling, N., Thybo, H., Faleide, J. I. and Wenzel, F.
MAGNUS – A Seismological Broadband Experiment to Resolve Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure beneath the Southern Scandes Mountains in Norway
Seismological Research Letters, 81, 76-84, 2010.
INTRODUCTION
The 4-D evolution of topography is a complex scientific topic in geosciences that requires interdisciplinary efforts. In Europe, increased attention toward this research topic was originally coordinated by the TOPO-EUROPE initiative (Cloetingh et al. 2007), which has led to a continent-wide research program under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. One project within that framework is titled "TopoScandiaDeep— the Scandinavian Mountains: Deep Processes," which aims at developing a self-consistent geophysical model for the lithosphere-asthenosphere system under southern Norway and at understanding the mechanisms that led to mountain-building far away from the plate boundary. A major component of the project is the analysis of recently acquired, passive seismological data from the MAGNUS (MAntle investiGations of Norwegian Uplift Structures) experiment. The temporary network covered the high topography of southern Norway, which is, in the absence of compressional tectonics, a typical example of a particular geoscientific problem that is still not entirely understood—the origin of high topography along passive continental margins (e.g., Japsen and Chalmers 2000).