3-D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle: III. Thermochemical tomography in the Western-Central U.S.

Afonso, Juan CarlosRawlinson, NicholasYang, YingjieSchutt, Derek L.Jones, AlanFullea, JavierGriffin, William2017-08-112017-08-112016-10Afonso, J C, Rawlinson, N, Yang, Y, Schutt, D L, Jones, A, Fullea, J & Griffin, W 2016, '3-D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle: III. Thermochemical tomography in the Western-Central U.S.', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 121, no. 10, pp. 7337-7370. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB0130492169-9313http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9127Acknowledgments We are indebted to F. Darbyshire and J. von Hunen for useful comments on earlier versions of this work. This manuscript benefited from thorough and constructive reviews by W. Levandowski and an anonymous reviewer. We also thank J. Connolly, M. Sambridge, B. Kennett, S. Lebedev, B. Shan, U. Faul, and M. Qashqai for insightful discussions about, and contributions to, some of the concepts presented in this paper. The work of J.C.A. has been supported by two Australian Research Council Discovery grants (DP120102372 and DP110104145). Seismic data are from the IRIS DMS. D.L.S. acknowledges support from NSF grant EAR-135866. This is contribution 848 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (http://www.ccfs.mq.edu.au) and 1106 in the GEMOC Key Centre (http://www.gemoc.mq.edu.au).3417692984englithospheric structurejoint inversionmantle compositionthermochemical tomographyWestern U.SColorado Plateaulitosphereinverse theorymantletomographygravity anomalies and Earth structureQE GeologyQE3-D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle: III. Thermochemical tomography in the Western-Central U.S.Journal article10.1002/2016JB01304912110