Mantle wedge hydration in Nicaragua from local earthquake tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-112

  Dinc, A Nilay ^a,d   Rabbel, Wolfgang ^a   Flueh, Ernst R ^b   Taylor, Waldo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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

^c INSTITUTO COSTARRICENSE DE ELECTRICIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Hydrothermal systems; Seismic tomography; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COSTA RICA; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FLUID MIGRATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MANTLE WEDGE; NICARAGUA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WIDE ZONE;

EARTHQUAKES; TECTONICS;

HYDRATION;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EARTHQUAKE; HYDRATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE VELOCITY;

COSTA RICA; NICARAGUA;

EID: 79958086409     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05041.x     Document Type: Article

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