LitMod3D: An interactive 3-D software to model the thermal, compositional, density, seismological, and rheological structure of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Fullea, J ^a   Afonso, J C ^a,b   Connolly, J A D ^c   Fernandez M ^a   Garcia Castellanos D ^a   Zeyen, H ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Lithsopheric modeling; Mantle composition; Potential fields; Seismic velocities; Thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249117316     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002391     Document Type: Article

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