An upper-mantle upwelling underneath Ireland revealed from non-linear tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 253-268

  Wawerzinek, B ^a   Ritter, Joachim R R ^a   Jordan, M ^b   Landes, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle processes; Oceanic hotspots and intraplate volcanism; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; HOT SPOT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53549093553     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03908.x     Document Type: Article

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