Lower slab boundary in the Japan subduction zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 101-107

  Tonegawa, Takashi ^a   Hirahara, Kazuro ^a   Shibutani, Takuo ^b   Fujii, Naoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chemical boundary; lower boundary of the slab; receiver function; the G discontinuity

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BOUNDARY; GAUSSIAN FILTER; GUTENBERG DISCONTINUITY; LOWER SLAB BOUNDARY; RECEIVER FUNCTION; SUBDUCTION;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TECTONICS;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33746820698     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.036     Document Type: Article

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