Shear wave splitting around hotspots: Evidence for upwelling-related mantle flow?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 388, Issue , 2005, Pages 171-192

  Walker, Kristoffer T ^a   Bokelmann, Götz H R ^b   Klemperer, Simon L ^c   Nyblade, Andrew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Eifel; Geodynamics; Plumes; Shear wave splitting; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH; DATA SET; DEFLECTION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; POLARIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOMOGRAPHY; UPWELLING; VISCOSITY; VOLUME; WAVE SPLITTING;

AFAR; EUROPE; GREAT BASIN; ICELAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874967504     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2388-4.171     Document Type: Review

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