Evidence of a collision between the Yucatán Block and Mexico in the Miocene

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 989-1000

  Kim, Younghee ^a,c   Clayton, Robert W ^a   Keppie, Fraser ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Dynamics: seismotectonics; Seismic tomography; Seismicity and tectonics; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; ME-XICO; MIOCENE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC LINES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SLAB DIP; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC;

SEISMOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 80054682392     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05191.x     Document Type: Article

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