Alteration of the subducting oceanic lithosphere at the southern central Chile trench-outer rise

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Contreras Reyes, Eduardo ^a   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^a   Flueh, Ernst R ^a   Scherwath, Martin ^a   Heesemann, Martin ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bending related faulting; Seismic tomography; Trench outer rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249090170     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001632     Document Type: Article

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