Seismic tomography and earthquake locations in the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican upper mantle

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Syracuse, Ellen M ^a   Abers, Geoffrey A ^b   Fischer, Karen ^c   MacKenzie, Laura ^a   Rychert, Catherine ^d   Protti, Marino ^e   González, Víctor ^e   Strauch, Wilfried ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^f Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Melt; Seismic velocities; Serpentine; Slab; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049088702     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC001963     Document Type: Article

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