Slab portal beneath the western Aleutians

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Levin, V., Shapiro, N., Park, J., Ritzwoller, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Pacific; The Portal; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_2809003

Tomographic images of the distribution of shear-wave speed beneath the northwestern Pacific delineate the configuration of the subducted oceanic lithosphere beneath the western Aleutian arc. At similar to 100 km depth, a fast shear-wave speed anomaly is beneath the Aleutian arc everywhere east of 17...