Transition from slab to slabless: Results from the 1993 Mendocino triple junction seismic experiment

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-199

  Beaudoin, Bruce C ^a   Godfrey, Nicola J ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^a   Lendl, Christof ^b   Trehu, Anne M ^b   Henstock, Timothy J ^c   Levander, Alan ^c   Holl, James E ^d   Meltzer, Anne S ^d   Luetgert, James H ^e   Mooney, Walter D ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; GEOLOGY;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; CRUSTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE; EUREKA , CALIFORNIA; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; MENDOCINO TRIPLE JUNCTIONS; METAMORPHIC FLUIDS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TECTONIC THICKENING; FRACTURE ZONE; MECHANICAL MIXING; NORTH AMERICAN; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRIPLE JUNCTION; CRUST; MANTLE (UPPER); SEISMIC PROFILES; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION/TRANSFORM TRANSITION; TRIPLE JUNCTIONS;

CALIFORNIA; MENDOCINO TRIPLE JUNCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES; PACIFIC;

EID: 0029752398     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0195:TFSTSR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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