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Park, Y. and Nyblade, A.A. (2006). P-wave tomography reveals a westward dipping low velocity zone beneath the Kenya Rift. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2005GL025605. issn: 0094-8276. |
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Three teleseismic P-wave travel time data sets (KRISP 1985, 1989--1990; Kenya Broadband Seismic Experiment) have been inverted to obtain a new tomographic model of the upper mantle beneath the Kenya Rift. The model shows a 0.5--1.5% low velocity anomaly below the rift extending to about 150 km depth. Below ~150 km depth, the anomaly broadens to the west toward the Tanzania Craton, suggesting a westward dip to the structure. Tomographic images to the south in Tanzania and to the north in Ethiopia also show westward dipping low velocity anomalies below depths of ~150--200 km. The presence of westward dipping low velocity structures along much of the East African rift (Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania) is difficult to explain with a plume model and is consistent with some models of the African Superplume showing anomalous lower and upper mantle structure connecting at mid-mantle depths under the western side of East Africa. |
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Keywords
Seismology, Body waves, Seismology, Mantle (1212, 1213, 8124), Seismology, Tomography (6982, 8180) |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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