Sedimentary underplating at the Cascadia mantle-wedge corner revealed by seismic imaging

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 545-548

  Calvert, Andrew J ^a   Preston, Leiph A ^b   Farahbod, Amir M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; MICROTREMOR; PLATE BOUNDARY; PORE PRESSURE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CASCADIA MARGIN; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961051656     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1195     Document Type: Article

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