Upper mantle low anisotropy channels below the Pacific Plate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 263-274

  Montagner, J P ^a,b  

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

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Asthenosphere; Convection; Lithosphere; Pacific Plate; Seismic waves; Tomography; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

MANTLE CONVECTION; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037106958     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00791-4     Document Type: Article

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