Foundering of lower island-arc crust as an explanation for the origin of the continental Moho

Oliver Jagoutz and Mark D. Behn
Additional contact information
Oliver Jagoutz: Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
Mark D. Behn: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Nature, 2013, vol. 504, issue 7478, 131-134

Abstract: The calculated density and seismic structure of the two best-exposed island arc sections (Kohistan and Talkeetna) reveals that the foundering of the lower arc crust produces a sharp seismic discontinuity characteristic of the continental Mohorovičić discontinuity.

Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12758 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:504:y:2013:i:7478:d:10.1038_nature12758

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature12758

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().