Upper mantle P-wave speed variations beneath Ethiopia and the origin of the Afar hotspot

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 329-332

  Benoit, Margaret H ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^a   VanDecar, John C ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afar; Ethiopia; Seismology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AFAR HOTSPOT; THERMAL UPWELLINGS; UPPER MANTLE P-WAVE;

IMAGE PROCESSING; ROCKS; THERMAL PLUMES; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

SEISMOLOGY;

HOT SPOT; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING;

AFAR; AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646804524     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22281.1     Document Type: Article

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