Variations in slab dip along the subducting Nazca Plate, as related to stress patterns and moment release of intermediate-depth seismicity and to surface volcanism

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Chen, Po Fei ^a   Bina, Craig R ^a   Okal, Emile A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dip; Nazca; seismicity; stress; Subduction; volcanism

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC WAVES; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; INTERMEDIATE-DEPTH EARTHQUAKES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; NAZCA; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; VOLCANISM;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 8744294198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GC000153     Document Type: Article

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