Foundering lithosphere imaged beneath the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5684, 2004, Pages 660-662

  Boyd, Oliver S ^a   Jones, Craig H ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TOMOGRAPHY;

LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

GARNETS;

ELEMENT; IRON; MAGNESIUM;

ECLOGITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3442895297     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1099181     Document Type: Article

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