Lithospheric discontinuities /
A multidisciplinary update on continental plate tectonics and plate boundary discontinuities Understanding the origin and evolution of the continental crust continues to challenge Earth scientists. Lithospheric Discontinuities offers a multidisciplinary review of fine scale layering within the conti...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ : Washington, D.C. :
John Wiley & Sons ; American Geophysical Union,
2019.
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| Series: | Geophysical monograph ;
239. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction--lithospheric discontinuities / Huaiyu Yuan and Barbara Romanowicz
- On the origin of the upper mantle seismic discontinuities / Shun-ichiro Karato and Jeffrey Park
- The evolution of the oceanic lithosphere : an electromagnetic perspective / Rob L. Evans, Emily Sarafian, and Adam R. Sarafian
- Lithospheric and asthenospheric structure below oceans from anisotropic tomography / Jean-Paul Montagner and Gael Burgos
- Seismic imaging of the base of the ocean plates / Catherine A. Rychert, Nick Harmon, and Saikiran Tharimena
- Electrical discontinuities in the contienental lithosphere imaged with magnetotellurics / Kate Selway
- A lithosphere--asthenosphere boundary--a global model derived from multimode surface-wave tomography and petrology / Keith Priestley, Dan McKenzie, and Tak Ho
- Frayed edges of cratonic mantle keels : thermal diffusion timescales and their predicted imprint on mantle-velocity structure / David W. Eaton, Xuewei Bao, and Claire Perry
- Perspectives of the S-receiver-function method to image upper mantle discontinuities / Rainer Kind and Xiaohui Yuan
- Continenteal lithospheric layering beneath stable, modified, and destroyed cratons from seismic daylight imaging / Weijia Sun, Brian Kennett, Liang Zhao, and Li-Yun Fu
- Cratonic lithosphere discontinuities : dynamics of small-volume melting, metacratonization, and a possible role for brines / Sonja Aulbach.
