Inversion of seismic waveforms for shear wave velocity structure in the lowermost mantle beneath the Hawaiian hotspot

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 136-142

  Kawai, Kenji ^a,b   Geller, Robert J ^c   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hawaiian hotspot; Lateral heterogeneity; Lowermost mantle; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN NATIONALS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SETS; DEPTH RANGE; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; HOT SPOT; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LOWERMOST MANTLE; RADIAL PROFILES; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SHEAR FLOW;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; HOT SPOT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LOWER MANTLE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649442199     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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