Complex patterns of fluid and melt transport in the central Andean subduction zone revealed by attenuation tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 105-119

  Schurr, B ^a   Asch, G ^a   Rietbrock, A ^b   Trumbull, R ^a   Haberland, C ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation tomography; Central Andes; Fluids and melts; Seismology; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FLUID FLOW; MELT; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141988704     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00441-2     Document Type: Article

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