Lithospheric discontinuities. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Huaiyu Yuan, Barbara Romanowicz, Alan G. Jones.
• Authors: Yuan, Huaiyu; Romanowicz, Barbara A; Dr, Jones, Alan G
• Contents: Contributors vii Preface ix Introduction—Lithospheric Discontinuities; Huaiyu Yuan and Barbara Romanowicz 1 1. On the Origin of the Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities 5; Shun‐ichiro Karato and Jeffrey Park 2. The Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere: An Electromagnetic Perspective 35; Rob. L. Evans, Emily Sarafian, and Adam R. Sarafian 3. Lithospheric and Asthenospheric Structure Below Oceans from Anisotropic Tomography 55; Jean–Paul Montagner and Gael Burgos 4. Seismic Imaging of the Base of the Ocean Plates 71; Catherine A. Rychert, Nick Harmon, and Saikiran Tharimena 5. Electrical Discontinuities in the Continental Lithosphere Imaged with Magnetotellurics 89; Kate Selway 6. A Lithosphere–Asthenosphere Boundary—a Global Model Derived from Multimode Surface‐Wave Tomography and Petrology 111; Keith Priestley, Dan McKenzie, and Tak Ho 7. Frayed Edges of Cratonic Mantle Keels: Thermal Diffusion Timescales and Their Predicted Imprint on Mantle‐Velocity Structure 125; David W. Eaton, Xuewei Bao, and Claire Perry 8. Perspectives of the S‐Receiver‐Function Method to Image Upper Mantle Discontinuities 139; Rainer Kind and Xiaohui Yuan 9. Continental Lithospheric Layering Beneath Stable, Modified, and Destroyed Cratons from Seismic Daylight Imaging 155; Weijia Sun, Brian Kennett, Liang Zhao, and Li‐Yun Fu 10. Cratonic Lithosphere Discontinuities: Dynamics of Small‐Volume Melting, Metacratonization, and a Possible Role for Brines 177; Sonja Aulbach Index 205
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Washington, D.C : American Geophysical Union
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.13; Lithosphere; Continents
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119249733; 9781119249726
• Related ISBNs: 9781119249719
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