Hidden hotspot track beneath the eastern United States

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 963-966

  Chu, Risheng ^a,c   Leng, Wei ^b,c   Helmberger, Don V ^c   Gurnis, Michael ^c  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; GEODYNAMICS; HOT SPOT; MESOZOIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC PLATE; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887078852     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1949     Document Type: Article

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