Unraveling the geometry of the Farallon plate: Synthesis of three-dimensional imaging results from USArray

Tectonophysics

Volumn 532-535, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-102

  Pavlis, Gary L ^a   Sigloch, Karin ^b   Burdick, Scott ^c   Fouch, Matthew J ^d   Vernon, Frank L ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Farallon plate; Mantle structure; Seismic imaging; Tomography

Indexed keywords

3D VISUALIZATION; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; FARALLON PLATE; HIGH VELOCITY; IMAGE VOLUME; KINEMATIC MODEL; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NEW RESULTS; NORTH AMERICAN; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PLATE MOTIONS; SCALE MODELS; SCATTERED WAVES; SEISMIC IMAGING; SLAB WINDOWS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLCANIC ARC; WASHINGTON; WAVESPEED; YELLOWSTONES;

KINEMATICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; LOWER MANTLE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84859104765     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.02.008     Document Type: Review

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