Geophysics: Pervasive seismic wave reflectivity and metasomatism of the Tonga mantle wedge

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5826, 2007, Pages 855-859

  Zheng, Yingcai ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Flanagan, Megan P ^b   Williams, Quentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; IMAGING METHOD; METASOMATISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; REFLECTIVITY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TONGA; TOPOGRAPHY; ZONATION;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TONGA;

EID: 34248587769     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138074     Document Type: Article

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