Deep lithospheric structures along the southern central Chile margin from wide-angle P-wave modelling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 579-600

  Scherwath, M ^a   Contreras Reyes, E ^a,b   Flueh, E R ^a   Grevemeyer, I ^a   Krabbenhoeft, A ^a   Papenberg, C ^a   Petersen, C J ^a,c   Weinrebe, R W ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Controlled source seismology; Crustal structure; Seismic tomography; South America; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NAZCA PLATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; RUPTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE;

CHILE; CHILOE ISLAND; LOS LAGOS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70350255719     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04298.x     Document Type: Article

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