Tracking slabs beneath northwestern Pacific subduction zones

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 331-332, Issue , 2012, Pages 269-280

  Gu, Yu Jeffrey ^a   Okeler, Ahmet ^a   Schultz, Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Highly reflective zone; Mantle transition zone; Northwestern Pacific; Slab penetration; SS precursor; Stagnant slab

Indexed keywords

MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC; REFLECTIVE ZONES; SLAB PENETRATION; SS PRECURSOR; STAGNANT SLAB;

OLIVINE; REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

PILES;

GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

CHINA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KOREA; KURIL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 84859800715     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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