Mantle transition zone topography and structure beneath the Yellowstone hotspot

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Fee, David ^a   Dueker, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

7207 Seismology: Core and mantle; 7218 Seismology: Lithosphere and upper mantle; 8121 Tectonophysics: Dynamics, convection currents and mantle plumes; 8124 Tecnophysics: Earth's interior composition and state (1212)

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONVERSION POINTS; MANTLE; UNCORRELATED TOPOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

HOT SPOT; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE CALDERA;

EID: 10644284774     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020636     Document Type: Article

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