Investigation of Cascadia segmentation with ambient noise tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 67-76

  Porritt, Robert W ^a   Allen, Richard M ^a   Boyarko, Devin C ^b   Brudzinski, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc volcanism; Cascadia; Episodic tremor and slip; Segmentation; Subduction zone structure; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ARC MAGMAS; ARC VOLCANISM; BLANCO FRACTURE ZONE; CASCADIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; CRUSTAL BOUNDARIES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EPISODIC TREMOR AND SLIP; LITHOSPHERIC; LOW-VELOCITY; OLYMPICS; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SHEAR VELOCITIES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONE STRUCTURE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SHEAR FLOW; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

AMBIENT NOISE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ISLAND ARC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHASE VELOCITY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79961126827     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.026     Document Type: Article

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