Wavefront healing renders deep plumes seismically invisible

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 273-277

  Hwang, Yong Keun ^a   Ritsema, Jeroen ^a   van Keken, Peter E ^a   Goes, Saskia ^b   Styles, Elinor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Seismic tomography; Wave propagation; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE PERTURBATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HOT PLUMES; HOTSPOTS; LOW-VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; PHYSICAL EVIDENCE; SEISMIC STUDIES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FORMS;

SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; HOT SPOT; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANISM; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80052966855     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05173.x     Document Type: Article

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