Tomographic evidence for the mantle upwelling beneath southwestern Japan and its implications for arc magmatism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 90-105

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

high 3He 4He ratios; kii Peninsula; southwestern Japan; travel time tomography; upwelling flow; volcanism

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; INTRASLAB SEISMICITY; MANTLE UPWELLING; TRAVEL-TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

BASALT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; CHUGOKU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KII PENINSULA; KINKI; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; SHIKOKU;

EID: 33846326320     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.024     Document Type: Article

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