Constraints on the causes of mid-Miocene volcanism in the Pacific Northwest US from ambient noise tomography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Hanson Hedgecock, Sara ^a   Wagner, Lara S ^a   Fouch, Matthew J ^b   James, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AMBIENT NOISE TOMOGRAPHIES; AVERAGE VELOCITY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW VELOCITIES; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MIOCENE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SEISMIC DATAS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; UPPER MANTLE; UPPERMOST MANTLE; YELLOWSTONES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AMBIENT NOISE; BROADBAND DATA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; MIOCENE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANISM; WAVE VELOCITY;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857989664     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051108     Document Type: Article

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