Intrastab Earthquakes: Dehydration of the Cascadia Slab

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5648, 2003, Pages 1197-1200

  Preston, Leiph A ^a   Creager, Kenneth C ^a   Crosson, Robert S ^a   Brocher, Thomas M ^b   Trehu, Anne M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION;

CRUST MANTLE BOUNDARY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARTICLE; BASALT; DEHYDRATION; EARTHQUAKE; HYDRATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

MOHO;

EID: 0242497667     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090751     Document Type: Article

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