Magnetotelluric image of the fluid cycle in the Costa Rican subduction zone

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-111

  Worzewski, Tamara ^a   Jegen, Marion ^a   Kopp, Heidrun ^a   Brasse, Heinrich ^b   Taylor Castillo, Waldo ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO COSTARRICENSE DE ELECTRICIDAD   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FLUID DYNAMICS; ISLAND ARC; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OUTFLOW; SEAWATER; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 79551582857     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1041     Document Type: Article

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