Mantle Transition Zone Thickness in the Central South-American Subduction Zone

Earth's Deep Water Cycle

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-224

  Braunmiller, Jochen ^a   Van Der Lee, Suzan ^b   Doermann, Lindsey ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth Mantle; Geodynamics; Geology, Structural; Groundwater; Hydrologic cycle

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

410-KM DISCONTINUITY; EARTH MANTLE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; LATERAL VARIATIONS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SOUTH AMERICAN SUBDUCTIONS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 60649092356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/168GM16     Document Type: Chapter

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