Imaging mantle plumes with instantaneous phase measurements of diffracted waves

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 650-664

  Rickers, Florian ^a   Fichtner, Andreas ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body waves; Computational seismology; Inverse theory; Oceanic hotspots and intraplate volcanism; Seismic tomography; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; HOTSPOTS; INVERSE THEORY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE SCATTERING;

SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES; WAVEFRONTS;

PHASE MEASUREMENT;

HOT SPOT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLCANISM; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84862201197     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05515.x     Document Type: Article

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