Thickening of young Pacific lithosphere from high-resolution Rayleigh wave tomography: A test of the conductive cooling model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 96-106

  Harmon, Nicholas ^a   Forsyth, Donald W ^b   Weeraratne, Dayanthie S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Pacific Rise; GLIMPSE; lithosphere; MELT; seismology; surface waves

Indexed keywords

EAST PACIFIC RISE; GLIMPSE; HALF SPACES; LITHOSPHERE; LOW VELOCITIES; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE HETEROGENEITIES; MELT; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIAL MODELING; RAYLEIGH; RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; SEA FLOORS; SHEAR VELOCITY (VS); WAVE PHASE VELOCITIES;

COOLING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC WAVES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; GEOPHYSICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHASE VELOCITY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

VELOCITY;

DATA SET; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NAZCA PLATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; PARAMETERIZATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 58649102260     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.025     Document Type: Article

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