The Iceland–Jan Mayen plume system and its impact on mantle dynamics in the North Atlantic region: Evidence from full-waveform inversion

• Main Authors: Rickers, Florian, Fichtner, Andreas, Trampert, Jeannot
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Subjects: Seismology; Full-waveform inversion; North Atlantic; Mantle plumes; Iceland; Jan Mayen; Greenland; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/77780; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000077780

We present a high-resolution S-velocity model of the North Atlantic region, revealing structural features in unprecedented detail down to a depth of 1300 km. The model is derived using full-waveform tomography. More specifically, we minimise the instantaneous phase misfit between synthetic and obser...