Constraints on the Kurile slab from shear wave residual sphere analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B4, 1999, Pages 7255-7278

  Pankow, Kris L ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME;

KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033541398     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900039     Document Type: Article

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