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Cascadia subduction zone: two contrasting models of lithospheric structure

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/structure/crust/cascadia.php

Summary of an investigation of the Cascadia subduction zone with detailed density-modeling experiments of the crust and mantle along two transects across Vancouver Island and the Canadian margin and the other on the margin of central Oregon.

by Romanyuk, Tatiana; Blakely, Richard J.; Mooney, Walter D.; and Earthquake Hazards Program (Sponsor)
Related topics:
Crust (earth), Geophysics, Gravitational field (earth), Lithosphere, Mantle (earth), Mathematical modeling, Tectonic processes
Hydrologic units
Oregon-Washington Coastal,
Quadrangles
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