Slab temperature and thickness from seismic tomography 1. Method and application to Tonga

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B12, 1999, Pages 28789-28802

  Deal, Michael M ^a,b   Nolet, Guust ^b,c   Van Der Hilst, Rob D ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

TONGA;

EID: 1842796687     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900255     Document Type: Article

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