Waveform tomography reveals channeled flow at the base of the oceanic asthenosphere

Science

Volumn 342, Issue 6155, 2013, Pages 227-230

  French, Scott ^a   Lekic, Vedran ^b   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a,c,d  

^a Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c Collège de France ^*  (France)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; HOT SPOT; LOWER MANTLE; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANISM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOW RATE; MOTION; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 84885598741     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1241514     Document Type: Article

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