Caribbean Slab Segmentation Beneath Northwest South America Revealed by 3‐D Finite Frequency Teleseismic P‐Wave Tomography

Abstract The Caribbean plate subducts beneath northwest South America at a shallow angle due to a large igneous province that added up to 12 km of buoyant crust. The overriding plate lacks volcanism and exhibits Laramide‐style uplifts over 500 km from the trench. Here, we illuminate the subduction s...

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Main Authors: John Cornthwaite, Maximiliano J. Bezada, Wenpei Miao, Michael Schmitz, Germán A. Prieto, Viviana Dionicio, Fenglin Niu, Alan Levander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-04-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009431