Shear wave velocity structure of the southern African upper mantle with implications for the uplift of southern Africa

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 808-824

  Adams, Aubreya ^a   Nyblade, Andrew ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Cratons; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; APPROXIMATION METHODS; ARCHEAN; BROAD BANDS; CRATONS; FINITE FREQUENCIES; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MODELS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; THERMAL ANOMALIES; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY MODEL;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; PHASE VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SHEAR FLOW;

CRATON; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MOBILE BELT; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE VELOCITY;

KAAPVAAL CRATON; NAMAQUA-NATAL BELT;

EID: 79960350454     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05072.x     Document Type: Article

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