3D shear-wave velocity structure of the Eifel plume, Germany

M Keyser, JRR Ritter, M Jordan - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2002 - Elsevier
… From the database of the Eifel plume project with nearly 200 recorded teleseismic events …
, body wave magnitude larger than 4.9 and a clearly correlated wavefront of a S-wave phase (S …

The seismic signature of the Eifel plume

JRR Ritter - Mantle plumes: A multidisciplinary approach, 2007 - Springer
… sional (P) and shear (S) waves and the analysis of the P-coda … from surface wave dispersion
studies, teleseismic shear-wave … 2% for compressional waves and 5% for shear waves in its …

Surface waves image the top of the Eifel plume

JP Mathar, JRR Ritter… - Geophysical Journal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… We obtain well-resolved 1-D models of the shear wave velocity v s under the Eifel region,
Central Europe, from teleseismic surface waves. Using 41 temporary and permanent broad-…

The Eifel Plume—imaged with converted seismic waves

M Budweg, G Bock, M Weber - Geophysical Journal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Eifel is depressed by 15–25 km, which could be explained by a maximum temperature increase
of +200C to +300C. In the 3-D RF image of the Eifel Plume … upper mantle plume but they …

Joint geodynamical and seismic modelling of the Eifel plume

U Wüllner, UR Christensen… - Geophysical Journal …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
plume models are able to explain the P-wave traveltime anomalies observed during the Eifel
plume … the plume location, temperature anomaly, plume flux and relative motion between …

[HTML][HTML] A mantle plume below the Eifel volcanic fields, Germany

JRR Ritter, M Jordan, UR Christensen… - Earth and Planetary …, 2001 - Elsevier
… To image the mantle structure of the proposed Eifel plume with high resolution to a depth of
at least 400 km, 10 European institutions operated a seismic network with an aperture of 500…

Seismic anisotropy and shear wave splitting associated with mantle plume‐plate interaction

G Ito, R Dunn, A Li, CJ Wolfe… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… We then examine models of SWS at the Eifel, Hawaiian, and Iceland … shear wave splitting
reflects a greater amount shear between the plate and plume on the upwind side of the plume

Rayleigh wave tomography in the North Atlantic: high resolution images of the Iceland, Azores and Eifel mantle plumes

S Pilidou, K Priestley, E Debayle, O Gudmundsson - Lithos, 2005 - Elsevier
… from a smaller total heat flux plume trapped beneath a thicker … Eifel Plume would be small
compared to the degree of decompression melting of the higher heat flux Icelandic Plume

Shear-wave splitting around the Eifel hotspot: evidence for a mantle upwelling

KT Walker, GHR Bokelmann… - Geophysical Journal …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
shear-wave splitting analysis across the Eifel hotspot in west-central Europe. Our data set
includes 18 permanent European broadband stations and 102 temporary Eifel … the Eifel Plume

Geodetic evidence for a buoyant mantle plume beneath the Eifel volcanic area, NW Europe

C Kreemer, G Blewitt, PM Davis - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Our findings suggest that the surface deformation imposed by the Eifel plume explains why
… (such as the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) between the Eifel and Alps). In fact, we see no …