Mantle transition zone beneath the Caribbean-South American plate boundary and its tectonic implications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 105-111

  Huang, Jianping ^a,b   Vanacore, Elizabeth ^a   Niu, Fenglin ^a   Levander, Alan ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Lesser Antilles subduction zone; Mantle discontinuities; phase transition; receiver function; slab detachment

Indexed keywords

LESSER ANTILLES; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SLAB DETACHMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TECTONICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; NAZCA PLATE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; STACKING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; SOUTH AMERICA;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 73149113717     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.033     Document Type: Article

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