Full waveform tomography of the upper mantle in the South Atlantic region: Imaging a westward fluxing shallow asthenosphere?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 604, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-40

  Colli, Lorenzo ^a   Fichtner, Andreas ^b   Bunge, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adjoint method; Full waveform inversion; Pressure driven asthenospheric flow; Seismic tomography; Upper mantle convective planform

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHODS; ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

BATHYMETRY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ADJOINT METHOD; ASTHENOSPHERE; DATA INVERSION; MANTLE CONVECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84884418569     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.06.015     Document Type: Article

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