Mantle anisotropy beneath northwest Pacific subduction zones

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 15987-16002

  Fouch, Matthew J ^a   Fischer, Karen M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; MANTLE PROCESSES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSITION ZONE;

PACIFIC, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0030474591     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00881     Document Type: Article

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