Quantitative Relationships Between Basalt Geochemistry, Shear Wave Velocity, and Asthenospheric Temperature Beneath Western North America

Abstract Western North America has an average elevation that is ∼2 km higher than cratonic North America. This difference coincides with a westward decrease in average lithospheric thickness from ∼240 to <100 km. Tomographic models show that slow shear wave velocity anomalies lie beneath this reg...

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Main Authors: M. Klöcking, N. J. White, J. Maclennan, D. McKenzie, J. G. Fitton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-09-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007559
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