The Iceland-Jan Mayen plume system and its impact on mantle dynamics in the North Atlantic region: Evidence from full-waveform inversion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 367, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-51

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

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Full waveform inversion; Iceland; Jan Mayen; Mantle plumes; North Atlantic; Seismology

Indexed keywords

FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; ICELANDS; JAN MAYEN; MANTLE PLUME; NORTH ATLANTIC;

LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

VELOCITY;

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND; JAN MAYEN; KOLBEINSEY RIDGE; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84875060741     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.022     Document Type: Article

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