Origin of the Newberry Hotspot Track: Evidence from shear-wave splitting

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 315-322

  Xue, Mei ^a   Allen, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotspot track; Lithospheric processes; Newberry; Oregon; SKS splits

Indexed keywords

HOTSPOT TRACK; LAVA FLOWS; LITHOSPHERIC PROCESSES; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING; SILICIC VOLCANIC DOMES;

ANISOTROPY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

VOLCANOES;

HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; S-WAVE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CASCADE RANGE; NEWBERRY VOLCANO; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645506883     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.066     Document Type: Article

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