Aligned buoyant highs, across-trench deformation, clustered volcanoes, and deep earthquakes are not aligned with plate-tectonic theory

Geomorphology

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 199-222

  Smoot, N Christian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Aseismic high; Earthquakes; Subduction; Surge tectonics; Trench; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

ASEISMIC HIGHS; ASEISMIC STRUCTURE; SEAMOUNT; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURGE TECTONICS; TECTONICS;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030861323     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-555x(96)00027-x     Document Type: Article

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