Imaging 3-D spherical convection models: What can seismic tomography tell us about mantle dynamics?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1299-1302

  Mégnin, Charles ^a   Bunge, Hans Peter ^b   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a   Richards, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR FLOW;

MANTLE DYNAMICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPHERICAL CONVECTION MODELS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONVECTION; MANTLE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ENDOTHERMIC PHASE TRANSITION; HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE; INDUCED TEMPERATURE; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SMOOTHING PARAMETER; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0031158603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01256     Document Type: Article

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