Upper mantle structure beneath the Caribbean-South American plate boundary from surface wave tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Miller, Meghan S ^a   Levander, Alan ^a   Niu, Fenglin ^a   Li, Aibing ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; THRUST; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 63049101785     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005507     Document Type: Article

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