Evaluation of slab images in the northwestern Pacific

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 1998, Pages 953-964

  Tajima, Fumiko ^a   Fukao, Yoshio ^b   Obayashi, Masayuki ^b   Sakurai, Taro ^b  

^a Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032444488     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352190     Document Type: Article

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