Upper mantle temperatures from teleseismic tomography of French Massif Central including effects of composition, mineral reactions, anharmonicity, anelasticity and partial melt

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 147-163

  Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,b   Zeyen, Hermann ^a,d   Stoll, Gerald ^a   Werling, Friederike ^c   Altherr, Rainer ^e   Fuchs, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Central Massif; Seismology; Three dimensional models; Tomography; Upper mantle; Velocity

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE/ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MANTLE TEMPERATURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELLING;

FRANCE, MASSIF CENTRAL;

EID: 0029730728     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(95)00238-8     Document Type: Article

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