Upper mantle structure beneath Cameroon from body wave tomography and the origin of the Cameroon Volcanic Line

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Reusch, A M ^a,b   Nyblade, A A ^a   Wiens, D A ^c   Shore, P J ^c   Ateba, B ^d   Tabod, C T ^e   Nnange, J M ^f  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Branch for Geophysical and Volcanological Research Institute for Geological and Mining Research   (Cameroon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^f Institute for Geological and Mining Research ^*  (Cameroon)

Author keywords

intraplate volcanism; mantle convection; upper mantle

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AGE PROGRESSION; ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVES; CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICA; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; FLOW CONVECTION; FRACTURE ZONE; INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM; LATERAL FLOW; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; P- AND S-WAVES; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC STATION; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHEAR ZONE; TELESEISMIC; THERMAL PERTURBATIONS; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; VELOCITY PERTURBATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC LANDFORM; VOLCANOLOGY;

CAMEROON;

EID: 77957715353     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003200     Document Type: Article

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