Plate reconstructions and tomography reveal a fossil lower mantle slab below the Tasman Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 143-151

  Schellart, W P ^a,b   Kennett, B L N ^a   Spakman, W ^c   Amaru, M ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

mantle tomography; mantle viscosity; New Caledonia; New Zealand; obduction; plate reconstructions; slab detachment; Southwest Pacific; subduction

Indexed keywords

MANTLE TOMOGRAPHY; MANTLE VISCOSITY; NEW CALEDONIA; NEW ZEALAND; OBDUCTION; PLATE RECONSTRUCTIONS; SLAB DETACHMENT; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; SUBDUCTION;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESTORATION; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CENOZOIC; FOSSIL RECORD; LOWER MANTLE; MAGMATISM; OBDUCTION; OCEAN BASIN; P-WAVE; PLATE MOTION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AUSTRALASIA; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); TASMAN SEA;

EID: 60649111279     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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