Thermal structure of the shallow upper mantle beneath Italy and neighbouring areas: Correlation with magmatic activity and geodynamic significance

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 369-385

  Tumanian, Maria ^a   Frezzotti, Maria Luce ^b   Peccerillo, Angelo ^c   Brandmayr, Enrico ^d   Panza, Giuliano F ^d,e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Magmatism; Mantle thermal structure; Seismic velocity temperature conversion; Tyrrhenian Sea area

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLOW; MAGMATISM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84872007269     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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