Relative arrival-time upper-mantle tomography and the elusive background mean

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1271-1278

  Bastow, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body waves; Cratons; Hotspots; Seismic tomography; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; BODY WAVES; CRATONS; HOTSPOTS; MEAN VELOCITIES; PARTIAL MELT; RULE OF THUMB; SCIENCE COMMUNITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHIC; VARIABLE TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY MODEL;

SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVE; CRATON; DATA INTERPRETATION; HOT SPOT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 84863784247     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05559.x     Document Type: Article

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