P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6342-6349

  Schmandt, Brandon ^a   Lin, Fan Chi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

hot spot; Laramide orogeny; passive margin; subduction; tomography

Indexed keywords

SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

HOT SPOT; LARAMIDE; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; MANTLE SEISMIC STRUCTURES; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; PASSIVE MARGIN; RAYLEIGH-WAVE PHASE VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION;

VELOCITY;

ARRAY; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MESOZOIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; P-WAVE; PASSIVE MARGIN; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOMOGRAPHY;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 84911072131     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061231     Document Type: Article

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