Crustal and upper mantle seismic structure and lithospheric flexure along the Society Island hotspot chain

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 123-140

  Grevemeyer, Ingo ^a   Weigel, Wilfried ^b   Schüssler, Stefan ^b   Avedik, Felix ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Hotspots; Isostasy; Melt generation; Refraction seismology; Seismic velocities

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLEXURE; HOT SPOT; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

FRENCH POLYNESIA;

EID: 0034768143     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0956-540X.2001.01521.x     Document Type: Article

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