Seismic attenuation beneath Europe and the North Atlantic: Implications for water in the mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 381, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Zhu, Hejun ^a   Bozdaǧ, Ebru ^a   Duffy, Thomas S ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint tomography; Seismic attenuation; Subduction zones; The mantle transition zone; Water transport

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WATER TRANSPORT;

SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANELASTICITY; ASTHENOSPHERE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; HELLENIC ARC; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84883815216     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.030     Document Type: Article

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