Tectonic regionalization without a priori information: A cluster analysis of upper mantle tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 151-160

  Lekic, Vedran ^a,b   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a  

^a Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Continental lithosphere; Global tomography; Hotspots; Waveform modeling

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; ANOMALOUS REGIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEPTH PROFILE; FULL-WAVEFORMS; GLOBAL TECTONICS; GLOBAL TOMOGRAPHY; HOTSPOTS; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLATE VELOCITY; PRIORI INFORMATION; PROPAGATION METHOD; RADIALLY ANISOTROPIC; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SALIENT FEATURES; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; STABLE PLATFORM; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM MODELING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LITHOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; HOT SPOT; MANTLE SOURCE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; S-WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79959929576     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.050     Document Type: Article

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