Sinking hot anomaly trapped at the 410 km discontinuity near the Honshu subduction zone, Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 565-577

  Honda, Satoru ^a   Morishige, Manabu ^a   Orihashi, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

410 km discontinuity; seismic tomography; superplume

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; HOT ANOMALY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUPERPLUME;

FLUID DYNAMICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; JAPAN; TECTONICS; THERMAL PLUMES;

GEOPHYSICS;

DISCONTINUITY; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; OLIVINE; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY; WADSLEYITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 34548487774     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.028     Document Type: Article

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