Synthetic seismic signature of thermal mantle plumes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 403-419

  Goes, Saskia ^a   Cammarano, Fabio ^a   Hansen, Ulrich ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anelasticity; Dynamic model; Mantle; Plume; Seismic velocity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE PLUME; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 1142305337     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00680-0     Document Type: Article

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