Water transportation through the Philippine Sea slab subducting beneath the central Kyushu region, Japan, as derived from receiver function analyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Abe, Y ^a   Ohkura, T ^a   Hirahara, K ^a   Shibutani, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

FOREARC; FREE FLUIDS; MANTLE WEDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; PERMEABILITY BARRIERS; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPPER BOUNDARY; UPPERMOST MANTLE; WATER TRANSPORTATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC CRUST; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SERPENTINITE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER DEPTH;

JAPAN; KYUSHU; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 83455231494     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049688     Document Type: Article

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