A seismic refraction investigation of crustal structure beneath the Lesser Antilles island arc
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High attenuation of short-period body waves and extremely low surface-wave group velocities have been found for seismic paths that traverse the crust and upper mantle beneath the concave side of the Lesser Antilles island arc (eastern Caribbean). The observations can be explained in terms of the currently accepted models of lithospheric plate subduction at other island arcs such as Fiji-Tonga, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Journal International
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0956-540X,1365-246X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1979.tb01031.x