Seismically imaged relict slab from the 55 Ma Siletzia accretion to the northwest United States

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-178

  Schmandt, Brandon ^a   Humphreys, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC VOLCANISM; BASALTIC CRUST; CASCADIA; COLUMBIA; HIGH VELOCITY; IGNIMBRITES; LARAMIDE; MAGMATIC QUIESCENCE; MAGMATISMS; MICROPLATES; NORTHERN BASINS; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SIERRA NEVADA; SLAB EDGES; TELESEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WASHINGTON;

TOMOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; MICROPLATE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78851470827     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31558.1     Document Type: Article

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