Subduction of the Chile Ridge: Upper mantle structure and flow

GSA Today

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4-10

  Russo, R M ^a   VanDecar, John C ^b   Comte, Diana ^c   Mocanu, Victor I ^d   Gallego, Alejandro ^a   Murdie, Ruth E ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^e The Provisional Technical Secretariat   (Austria)

^f St Ives Gold Mining Company   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; BODY WAVE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CHILE;

EID: 77955729540     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG61A.1     Document Type: Article

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