Mantle structure beneath Africa and Arabia from adaptively parameterized P-wave tomography: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic Afro-Arabian tectonism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 319-320, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-34

  Hansen, Samantha E ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^b   Benoit, Margaret H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Arabia; Rifting; Superplume; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARABIA; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SETS; EARTH'S LOWER MANTLE; EASTERN AFRICA; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; LOW-VELOCITY; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PARAMETERIZED; RIFT SYSTEMS; RIFTING; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SUPERPLUME; THERMO-CHEMICAL; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

GEODYNAMICS; SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RIFTING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84856045132     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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