NW Pacific slab rheology, the seismicity cutoff, and the olivine to spinel phase change

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 1998, Pages 977-985

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITION; SEISMICITY; SPINEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032439718     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352192     Document Type: Article

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