Two-stage subduction history under North America inferred from multiple-frequency tomography

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 458-462

  Sigloch, Karin ^a,b   McQuarrie, Nadine ^a   Nolet, Guust ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

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EID: 65349088472     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo231     Document Type: Article

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