Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell: Evidence from teleseismic receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 313-329

  Leahy, Garrett M ^a   Collins, John A ^a   Wolfe, Cecily J ^b   Laske, Gabi ^c   Solomon, Sean C ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Crustal structure; Heat flow; Hotspots

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CENTRAL SOURCE; CHEMICAL BUOYANCY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HEAT FLOWS; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; ISLAND CHAINS; LOCAL ACTIVE; SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT INTERFACE; SEISMIC EVENT; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; THE STANDARD MODEL; THERMAL ANOMALIES; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; BUOYANCY; HEAT TRANSFER; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

EXPERIMENTS;

BATHYMETRY; BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HEAT FLOW; MAGMA; SEISMIC SOURCE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78349272827     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04720.x     Document Type: Article

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