Evolution of mantle structure beneath the northwest Pacific: Evidence from seismic tomography and paleogeographic reconstructions

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Miller, Meghan S ^a   Kennett, Brian L N ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-ARC COLLISION; EURASIAN PLATE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; IZU ISLANDS; JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

EID: 33845787508     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001909     Document Type: Article

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