Subduction of continental lithosphere in the Banda Sea region: Combining evidence from full waveform tomography and isotope ratios

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 405-412

  Fichtner, Andreas ^a   De Wit, Maarten ^b   van Bergen, Manfred ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Australia; Banda Arc; Continental lithosphere; Continental subduction; Isotope ratios; Seismic waveform tomography

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BANDA ARC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTIONS; ISOTOPE RATIOS; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS;

ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STEEL SHEET; STRONTIUM; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

LITHOLOGY;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; IMAGING METHOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SUBDUCTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; BANDA ARC; BANDA SEA; INDONESIAN SEAS; NORTH AUSTRALIAN CRATON; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956012152     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.042     Document Type: Article

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