Missing roots and mantle “drips”: Regional Pn and teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

Keywords

Geology, Seismology, Crust, Mantle (geology), Bouguer anomaly

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• Regional Location and Identification Using Sparse StationsBrian Savage, Ying Ying Tan, Lupei Zhu — 2001
• Small‐scale upper mantle convection and crustal dynamics in southern CaliforniaN. P. Fay, Richard A. Bennett, J. C. Spinler — 2008
• Lithospheric Deformation at the South Island Oblique Collision, New ZealandSandra Bourguignon — 2009
• The effects of lithospheric thickness variations on the dynamics of the Earth's upper mantleChristopher Harig — 2010
• Localized imaging of the uppermost mantle with USArray Pn dataJ. S. Buehler, Peter M. Shearer — 2012
• Distribution of magma beneath the Toba caldera complex, north Sumatra, Indonesia, constrained by three‐dimensional P wave velocities, seismicity, and gravity dataMasturyono, R. McCaffrey, D. A. Wark — 2001
• Lithospheric dismemberment and magmatic processes of the Great Basin–Colorado Plateau transition, Utah, implied from magnetotelluricsPhilip E. Wannamaker, Derrick Hasterok, Jeffery M. Johnston — 2008
• Crust and Upper Mantle Inhomogeneities Beneath Western North Island, New Zealand: Evidence from Seismological and Electromagnetic Data.M. Salmon — 2008
• Evidence for deep melting of hydrous metasomatized mantle: Pliocene high‐potassium magmas from the Sierra NevadasL. T. Elkins‐Tanton, T. L. Grove — 2003
• Deep lithospheric dynamics beneath the Sierra Nevada during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic as inferred from xenolith petrologyCin‐Ty A. Lee, Roberta L. Rudnick, George H. Brimhall — 2001
• Magmatic expressions of continental lithosphere removalHuilin Wang, Claire A. Currie — 2015
• Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California: Part II. Implications of rock uplift and basin subsidence relationsJason B. Saleeby, Zorka Saleeby, Laëtitia Le Pourhiet — 2013
• Regional seismic wavefield propagationBrian Savage — 2004
• Rayleigh‐Taylor instability under a shear stress free top boundary condition and its relevance to removal of mantle lithosphere from beneath the Sierra NevadaChristopher Harig, Péter Molnár, G. A. Houseman — 2008
• Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in CaliforniaG. Zandt, Hersh Gilbert, Thomas Owens — 2004
• Lateral migration of a foundering high-density root: Insights from numerical modeling applied to the southern Sierra NevadaJ.L. Valera, Ana M. Negredo, M. I. Billen — 2014
• P-wave tomography of crust and upper mantle under Southern California: Influence of topography of Moho discontinuityJinli Huang, Dapeng Zhao — 2003
• Crustal thickness map of the western United States by partitioned waveform inversionTriparna Das, Guust Nolet — 1998
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