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, Collège de France - Chaire Physique de l'intérieur de la Terre, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (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.science/hal-01654115; https://hal.science/hal-01654115/document; https://hal.science/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...