Mantle and crust anisotropy in the eastern China region inferred from waveform splitting of SKS and PpSms

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 159-168

  Iidaka, Takashi ^a   Niu, Fenglin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

MOHO;

EID: 0003000227     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352373     Document Type: Article

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