Upper mantle structure beneath the Arabian Peninsula and northern Red Sea from teleseismic body wave tomography: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic uplift and volcanism in the Arabian Shield

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Park, Yongcheol ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^a   Rodgers, Arthur J ^b   Al Amri, Abdullah ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabian shield; Body wave velocity; Mantle plume; Tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148888801     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001566     Document Type: Article

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