A search for anomalies in the lowermost mantle using seismic bulletins

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 1992, Pages 1-28

  Weber, M ^a   Kornig M ^b  

^a SZGRF   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Meteorologie und Geophysik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODA; MANTLE (LOWER); MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 0027035670     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(92)90104-4     Document Type: Article

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