Seismic evidence against a mantle chemical discontinuity near 660 km depth beneath Izu-Bonin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 241-244

  Castle, John C ^a,b   Creager, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TECTONICS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHEMICAL DISCONTINUITY; IZU BONIN EARTHQUAKES; MAGNESIOWUSTITE PHASE TRANSITION; NEAR SOURCE MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; PEROVSKITE PHASE TRANSITION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CHEMICAL DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; P WAVE; SEISMIC DATA;

PACIFIC, IZU-BONIN ARC;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; SEISMOGRAPH STATIONS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031076287     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03829     Document Type: Article

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