Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the Geoscope stations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B5, 1999, Pages 10757-10773

  Barruol, Guilhem ^a   Hoffmann, Ruth ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING SYSTEM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 0013088346     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900033     Document Type: Article

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