Mantle provinces under North America from multifrequency P wave tomography

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sigloch, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

computational seismology; Farallon plate; finite frequency; mantle structure; North America; seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; FARALLON PLATE; FINITE FREQUENCY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NORTH AMERICA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SLAB; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; NEW MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951900927     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003421     Document Type: Article

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