Impact of bending related faulting on the seismic properties of the incoming oceanic plate offshore of Nicaragua

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ivandic, Monika ^a   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^b   Berhorst, Arnim ^b   Flueh, Ernst R ^b   McIntosh, Kirk ^c  

^a Sonderforschungsbereicht 574 ^*  (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SERPENTINIZATION; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC PLATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MIDDLE AMERICA TRENCH; NICARAGUA; NICOYA PENINSULA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 51449093975     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005291     Document Type: Article

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