Midmantle deformation between the Australian continent and the Fiji-Tonga subduction zone?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Heintz, Maggy ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TONGA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34250890012     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004058     Document Type: Article

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