Results of a Seismic-Refraction Profile from the Hoher Meissner to the North German Plain

Starting from two quarries at the Hoher Meissner and west of Gottingen an overlapping seismic-refraction profile runs northwards and ends in the North German Plain between Hannover and Bremen. The data along this profile are presented as record sections of normal and squared traces. The attempt was made to increase the signal-to-noise ratio by velocity stacking and by application of the modified method of correlation after SHIMSHONI and SMITH (1964). A simple crustal model, including time corrections for sediments, is derived. According to this the crustal thickness decreases from 28 to 26 km between the Soiling and the Deister mountains.