Shear wave reflectivity imaging of the Nazca-South America subduction zone: Stagnant slab in the mantle transition zone?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Contenti, Sean ^a   Gu, Yu Jeffrey ^a   Ökeler, Ahmet ^b   Sacchi, Mauricio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REFLECTION; TECTONICS;

410-KM DISCONTINUITY; AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; BACK-ARC; COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEPTH VARIATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VELOCITY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; NAZCA PLATE; PACIFIC OCEAN; REFLECTION AMPLITUDE; REFLECTIVITY STRUCTURES; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SLAB DEFORMATION; SLAB STRUCTURES; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; WADATI-BENIOFF ZONES; WAVE FORMS;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; BENIOFF ZONE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DISCONTINUITY; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PENETRATION; REFLECTIVITY; S-WAVE; SLAB; STAGNATION FLOW; SUBDUCTION; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE REFLECTION;

BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN SHIELD; NAZCA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84856494530     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050064     Document Type: Article

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