Seismic anisotropy beneath Cascadia and the Mendocino triple junction: Interaction of the subducting slab with mantle flow

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 627-632

  Eakin, Caroline M ^a,b   Obrebski, Mathias ^a   Allen, Richard M ^a   Boyarko, Devin C ^c   Brudzinski, Michael R ^c   Porritt, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia subduction; Gorda Juan de Fuca plate; Mendocino Triple Junction; Shear wave splitting; Slab edge

Indexed keywords

CASCADIA; GORDA-JUAN DE FUCA PLATE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SLAB EDGES; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

SHEAR FLOW;

S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SLAB; STACKING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH; TRIPLE JUNCTION; WAVE SPLITTING;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; MENDOCINO TRIPLE JUNCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77955180775     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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