Fossil slabs attached to unsubducted fragments of the Farallon plate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5342-5346

  Wang, Yun ^a,e   Forsyth, Donald W ^a   Rau, Christina J ^a   Carriero, Nina ^a   Schmandt, Brandon ^b,f   Gaherty, James B ^c   Savage, Brian ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Plate tectonics; Seismology; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; EARTHQUAKE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGY; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875821793     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214880110     Document Type: Article

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