Complex subduction and small-scale convection revealed by body-wave tomography of the western United States upper mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 435-445

  Schmandt, Brandon ^a   Humphreys, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Small scale convection; Subduction; Tomography; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; HIGH VELOCITY; JOINT INVERSION; LARAMIDE; LITHOSPHERIC; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MANTLE COMPONENT; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; MULTISCALES; NEW HIGH; PARTIAL MELT; SALTON TROUGH; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY PERTURBATION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC FIELD; WESTERN UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONES;

FREQUENCY BANDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDRATES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AMPLITUDE; BODY WAVE; DATA SET; MANTLE CONVECTION; P-WAVE; PLATE TECTONICS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE RIVER;

EID: 77956009736     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.047     Document Type: Article

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