Crustal structure beneath the Montserrat region of the Lesser Antilles island arc

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Sevilla, Winchelle Ian ^a   Ammon, Charles J ^a   Voight, Barry ^a   De Angelis, Silvio ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTSERRAT VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (Montserrat)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Lesser Antilles; Montserrat Island; Receiver function

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954417411     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003048     Document Type: Article

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