The fate of fluids released from subducting slab in northern Cascadia

Solid Earth

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-129

  Ramachandran, K ^a   Hyndman, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COMPOSITION; CASCADIA; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; FOREARC; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; LOWER CRUST; POISSON'S RATIO; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; INCREASING TEMPERATURES;

HYDRATION; POISSON RATIO; QUARTZ;

TECTONICS;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; FOREARC BASIN; LOWER CRUST; POISSON RATIO; QUARTZ; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SERPENTINITE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; FLUID FLOW; TECTONIC SETTING; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE;

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84870795354     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-3-121-2012     Document Type: Article

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