Fast P- and S-wave velocities associated with the "cold" stagnant slab beneath the northern Philippine Sea

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 179, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Sugioka, Hiroko ^a   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^a   Obayashi, Masayuki ^a   Fukao, Yoshio ^a   Gao, Yuan ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Body wave tomography; Stagnant slab; Travel time anomaly

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; BODY WAVES; BROADBAND RECORDS; CONSTANT SCALING FACTOR; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; P WAVES; P- AND S-WAVES; P-VELOCITY; P-WAVE VELOCITY; S VELOCITY; S-WAVE VELOCITY; S-WAVES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

SHEAR WAVES;

BODY WAVE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; JAPAN; KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 76949100771     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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