The role of thermal effect on mantle seismic anomalies under laurentia and fennoscandia from observations of glacial isostatic adjustment

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-17

  Wu, Patrick ^a   Wang, Hansheng ^b   Steffen, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Europe; North America.; Numerical solutions; SComposition of the mantle; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEISMOGRAPHS; VISCOSITY;

DYNAMICS OF LITHOSPHERE AND MANTLES; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ANOMALY; GRACE; HEAT FLUX; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE;

CANADA; FENNOSCANDIA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84875312944     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs009     Document Type: Article

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