Multimode surface waveform tomography of the Pacific Ocean: A closer look at the lithospheric cooling signature

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1384-1397

  Maggi, Alessia ^a   Debayle, Eric ^a   Priestley, Keith ^b   Barruol, Guilhem ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Lab Terre Océan   (French Polynesia)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Pacific Ocean; Plate tectonics; Rayleigh waves; Tomography

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 33747618962     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03037.x     Document Type: Article

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