Lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction beneath Ireland from joint inversion of teleseismic P-wave delay times and GRACE gravity

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1379-1396

  O'Donnell, J P ^a   Daly, E ^a   Tiberi, C ^b   Bastow, I D ^c   O'Reilly, B M ^d   Readman, P W ^d   Hauser, F ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Europe; Gravity anomalies and Earth structure; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVES; BRITAIN; DELAY TIME; EUROPE; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY ANOMALIES AND EARTH STRUCTURE; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; ICELAND PLUME; IRELAND; ITERATIVE JOINTS; JOINT INVERSION; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERIC; LONG WAVELENGTH; MAGMATIC INTRUSIONS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NON-LINEAR; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; PLATE STRETCHING; QUASI-LINEAR; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; TELESEISMIC; TERRANE ACCRETION; TERTIARY STRUCTURES; UPPER MANTLE;

EXPERIMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GRAVITATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEODYNAMICS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND; IRELAND;

EID: 79951568325     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04921.x     Document Type: Article

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