Lithospheric Discontinuities

ISBN-13: 9781119249719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Huaiyu Yuan; Barbara Romanowicz; Alan G. Jones

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction lithospheric discontinuities
Huaiyu Yuan and Barbara Romanowicz

Chapter 2: On the origin of the upper mantle seismic discontinuities
Shun–ichiro Karato and Jeffrey Park

Chapter 3: The Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere: An Electromagnetic Perspective,
Rob. L. Evans, Emily Sarafian, and Adam R. Sarafian

Chapter 4: Lithospheric and asthenospheric structure below oceans from anisotropic tomography
Jean–Paul Montagner and Gael Burgos

Chapter 5: Seismic Imaging of the Ocean Plates
Catherine A. Rychert, Nick Harmon, and Saikiran Tharimena

Chapter 6: Electrical discontinuities in the continental lithosphere imaged with magnetotellurics
Kate Selway

Chapter 7: A lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary – a global model derived from multi–mode surface wave tomography
Keith Priestley, Dan McKenzie, and Tak Ho

Chapter 8: 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

Chapter 9: Perspectives of the S–receiver function method to image upper mantle discontinuities
Rainer Kind and Xiaohui Yuan

Chapter 10: Continental lithospheric layering from the novel seismic daylight imaging beneath stable, modified and destructed cratons

Weijia Sun, Brian Kennett, Liang Zhao, and Li–Yun Fu

Chapter 11: Cratonic Lithosphere Discontinuities: Dynamics of Small–Volume Melting, Meta–Cratonisation and a Possible Role for Brines

Sonja Aulbach

O autorze

Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, AustraliaBarbara Romanowicz, University of California, Berkeley, US