Evidence for magmatic underplating and partial melt beneath the Canary Islands derived using teleseismic receiver functions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 212-213, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-54

  Lodge, A ^a   Nippress, S E J ^a   Rietbrock, A ^a   Garcia Yeguas A ^b,c   Ibanez J M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Hotspot; Magmatic underplating; Partial melting; Receiver function analysis

Indexed keywords

CANARY ISLANDS; HOT SPOT; PARTIAL MELTING; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; UNDERPLATING;

EXPERIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

LANTHANUM;

EARTHQUAKE; HOT SPOT; MAGMA; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PARTIAL MELTING; S-WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UNDERPLATING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANOLOGY;

CANARY ISLANDS; LA PALMA; LANZAROTE; LAS PALMAS; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

EID: 84868221053     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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