A narrow, mid-mantle plume below southern Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Daoyuan ^a,b   Helmberger, Don ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL EDGES; FORWARD MODELING; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SEISMIC ARRAYS; TOMOGRAPHIC; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFIELDS;

BASAL AREA; LOWER MANTLE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC ZONE; SLOPE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

KAAPVAAL CRATON;

EID: 77952172659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042339     Document Type: Article

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