A mega Ultra Low Velocity Zone at the Base of the Iceland Plume: a Target for Tomographic Telescope Implementation

• Main Authors: Romanowicz, Barbara, Yuan, Kaiqing, Masson, Yder J., Adourian, Sevan
• Other Authors: Seismological Laboratory Berkeley, Chaire Physique de l'intérieur de la Terre, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Thorne; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01654115; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01654115/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01654115/file/EGU2017-3342.pdf

International audience We have recently constructed the first global whole mantle radially anisotropic shear wave velocity model based on time domain full waveform inversion and numerical wavefield computations using the Spectral Element Method (French et al., 2013; French and Romanowicz, 2014). Thi...