The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

KM Fischer, HA Ford, DL Abt… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2010‏ - annualreviews.org
Seismological models of upper-mantle structure are providing new constraints on the
physical and chemical properties that differentiate the lithosphere from the asthenosphere. A …

Towards a better understanding of African topography: a review of passive-source seismic studies of the African crust and upper mantle

S Fishwick, ID Bastow - 2011‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Explaining the cause and support of Africa's varied topography remains a fundamental
question for our understanding of the long-term evolution of the continent. As geodynamical …

The seismic mid-lithosphere discontinuity

K Selway, H Ford, P Kelemen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Seismic S-wave receiver functions (SRF) are a uniquely powerful tool for imaging velocity
discontinuities within the upper mantle. SRF data frequently contain negative phases at …

North American lithospheric discontinuity structure imaged by Ps and Sp receiver functions

DL Abt, KM Fischer, SW French, HA Ford… - Journal of …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sp and Ps converted seismic waves at 93 permanent seismic stations are used to image
upper mantle velocity discontinuities across the contiguous United States and portions of …

Surface wave tomography: imaging of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath central and southern Africa?

S Fishwick - Lithos, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) remains a controversial subject in Earth
sciences, and beneath cratonic regions appears to be a particularly difficult boundary to …

The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary and cratonic lithospheric layering beneath Australia from Sp wave imaging

HA Ford, KM Fischer, DL Abt, CA Rychert… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Sp and Ps scattered wave receiver functions were calculated for nineteen stations across
Australia and the island of Tasmania in order to image the lithosphere–asthenosphere …

Constraints on the depth and thermal history of cratonic lithosphere from peridotite xenoliths, xenocrysts and seismology

KA Mather, DG Pearson, D McKenzie, BA Kjarsgaard… - Lithos, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Despite the relatively long-standing availability of numerical approaches for estimating
palaeogeotherms using peridotite xenolith Pressure–Temperature (P–T) data, the practise of …

Characterization and petrological constraints of the midlithospheric discontinuity

E Rader, E Emry, N Schmerr, D Frost… - Geochemistry …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Within continental lithosphere, widespread seismic evidence suggests a sharp
discontinuous downward decrease in seismic velocity at 60–160 km depth. This …

On the feasibility and use of teleseismic P wave coda autocorrelation for map** shallow seismic discontinuities

TS Phạm, H Tkalčić - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Seismic body waves from distant earthquakes, which propagate near vertically beneath
recording stations, provide tools for imaging shallow Earth structures with high vertical …

New insights into the crust and lithospheric mantle structure of Africa from elevation, geoid, and thermal analysis

J Globig, M Fernàndez, M Torne… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present new crust and lithosphere thickness maps of the African mainland based on
integrated modeling of elevation and geoid data and thermal analysis. The approach …