3-D configuration of subducted lithosphere in the western Pacific

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Chiu, Jer-Ming, Isacks, Bryan L., Cardwell, Richard K.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1991
• Subjects: Articles; Pacific; Sunda; Tonga; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/106/1/99; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1991.tb04604.x

Computer graphics techniques are used to portray the shape of the subducted lithosphere as seen from different views. The configuration of the subducted lithosphere is represented by a surface that approximately fits the upper envelope of the slab-like spatial distribution of earthquake hypocentres...