Mantle flow at a slab edge: Seismic anisotropy in the Kamchatka region ...

• Main Authors: Ozerov, A., Peyton, V., Gordeev, E., Lees, J., Park, J., Levin, V., Brandon, M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2001
• Subjects: Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Aleutian Island; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17615/y2xd-0t12; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/articles/ff365g09q

The junction of the Aleutian Island and the Kamchatka peninsula defines a sharp turn in the boundary of the Pacific and North American plates, terminating the subduction zones of the northwest Pacific. The regional pattern of shear-wave birefringence near the junction indicates that trench-parallel...