Remnant of the ancient Farallon Plate breakup: A low-velocity body in the lower oceanic crust off Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica - Evidence from wide-angle seismics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Walther, Christian ^a   Flueh, Ernst ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS; TECTONICS;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; INVERSION ZONES; LOW VELOCITIES; LOWER BOUNDARY; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; OCEANIC CRUST; REFRACTED WAVES; VELOCITY VARIATIONS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 0036819656     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015026     Document Type: Article

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