West margin of North America - A synthesis of recent seismic transects

Tectonophysics

Volumn 288, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 265-269

  Fuis, Gary S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental structures; Crustal structure; North America; Plate boundary structures and processes

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC PROFILE; TECTONICS;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031844602     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00300-4     Document Type: Article

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