A low seismic wavespeed anomaly beneath northwestern India: a seismic signature of the Deccan plume?

Widiyantoro, S; Kennett, Brian

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A low seismic wavespeed anomaly beneath northwestern India: a seismic signature of the Deccan plume?

Date

1999

Authors

Widiyantoro, S

Kennett, Brian

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

Seismic tomography of the Indian region using P wave arrival times reveals an approximately cylindrical region of lowered seismic velocities in the upper mantle to the north of the Gulf of Cambay and the present exposure of the Deccan flood basalts. This