Upper mantle temperatures and lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath the French Massif Central constrained by seismic, gravity, petrologic and thermal observations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 275, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 143-164

  Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,b,c   Zeyen, Hermann ^a,e   Granet, Michel ^c   Achauer, Ulrich ^c   Bauer, Christian ^a,f   Werling, Friederike ^d   Altherr, Rainer ^d   Fuchs, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

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

^c EOPGS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asthenosphere; Lithosphere; Mantle xenoliths; Massif Central; Tomography; Upper mantle temperature

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERE; P/T CONDITIONS; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; XENOLITH;

FRANCE, MASSIF CENTRAL;

EID: 0031429208     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00019-X     Document Type: Article

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