Lithospheric thinning beneath rifted regions of Southern California

Science

Volumn 334, Issue 6057, 2011, Pages 783-787

  Lekic, Vedran ^a   French, Scott W ^a,b   Fischer, Karen M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; S-WAVE; TECTONIC PLATE; THINNING;

ARTICLE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; SALTON TROUGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81055157704     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1208898     Document Type: Article

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