The wet Nicaraguan slab

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Abers, Geoffrey A ^a   Plank, Terry ^a   Hacker, Bradley R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDRATION; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; WATER; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

GEOCHEMICAL TRACERS; COCOS PLATES; GEOCHEMICAL TRACER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LATE ARRIVAL; LOW VELOCITIES; NICARAGUA; P WAVES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

VOLCANOES; SEISMIC WAVES;

COCOS PLATE; DEHYDRATION; MAFIC ROCK; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; VOLCANO;

EID: 0038605057     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015649     Document Type: Article

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