On the vertical extent of the large low shear velocity province beneath the South Pacific Superswell

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Tanaka, S ^a   Suetsugu, D ^a   Shiobara, H ^b   Sugioka, H ^a   Kanazawa, T ^b   Fukao, Y ^a   Barruol, G ^c   Reymond, D ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

3D STRUCTURE; LOW VELOCITY REGION; LOWER MANTLE; PROMINENT FEATURES; RELATIVE TIME; S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SHEAR VELOCITIES; WAVEFORM CROSS CORRELATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOT SPOT; MANTLE; S-WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PITCAIRN; POLYNESIA;

EID: 67449141377     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037568     Document Type: Article

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