Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 190, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 167-180

  Fouch, Matthew J ^a,d   Fischer, Karen M ^b   Wysession, Michael E ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Core mantle boundary; Lower mantle; S waves

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034856969     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00380-6     Document Type: Article

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