Slabs and shear wave reflectors in the midmantle

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Courtier, Anna M ^a,b   Revenaugh, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; DISCONTINUITY; S-WAVE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CORAL SEA; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 55949120832     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005261     Document Type: Article

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