Seismic tomography of the Pacific slab edge under Kamchatka

Tectonophysics

Volumn 465, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 190-203

  Jiang, Guoming ^a,b   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Zhang, Guibin ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Arc volcano; Kamchatka; Pacific slab; Seismic tomography; Slab loss

Indexed keywords

ARC VOLCANO; KAMCHATKA; PACIFIC SLAB; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB LOSS;

CAVITY RESONATORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKES;

ARRIVAL TIME; ISLAND ARC; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 60749099044     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.019     Document Type: Article

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