The snake river plain experiment revisited. Relationships between a Farallon plate fragment and the transition zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2673-2676

  Beucler, Eric ^a   Chevrot, Sébastien ^a   Montagner, Jean Paul ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; GEOPHYSICS;

SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; 410-KM DISCONTINUITY; EXPERIMENT DATA; GREAT CIRCLE; MANTLE PLUME; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; SOUTH AMERICA; TRANSITION ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCES;

DISCONTINUITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURVEY;

SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033372603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008345     Document Type: Article

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