The 660-km discontinuity within the subducting NW-Pacific lithospheric slab

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 25-35

  Lebedev, Sergei ^a   Chevrot, Sébastien ^a,b   Van Der Hilst, Rob D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Converted waves; Heterogeneity; Phase transformations; Topography; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; HETEROGENEITY; LITHOSPHERE; PHASE TRANSITION; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; TRANSITION ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037203094     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01011-7     Document Type: Article

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