Mantle transition zone thickness beneath Afar: Implications for the origin of the Afar hotspot

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 615-619

  Nyblade, Andrew A ^a   Knox, Ronald P ^a   Gurrola, Harold ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afar; Discontinuities; Hotspot; Receiver functions; Transition zone; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; HOT SPOT; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0033915972     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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