Seismic image of the subducted trailing fragments of the Farallon plate

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6622, 1997, Pages 266-269

  Van Der Lee, Suzan ^a,b   Nolet, Guust ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM;

CAINOZOIC; FARALLON PLATE; MESOZOIC; PLATE TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030620721     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386266a0     Document Type: Article

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