A fast velocity anomaly to the west of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2239-2242

  Kuo, Ban Yuan ^a,d   Chen, Chau Huei ^b   Zhang, Yu Shen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LIGHT VELOCITY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SCATTERING; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DISCORDANCE; DYNAMIC STRESS; FAST VELOCITY ANOMALY; GAUSSIAN BEAM METHOD; RAYLEIGH WAVE;

TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIAN-ANTARCTIC DISCORDANCE; MANTLE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0030210026     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02144     Document Type: Article

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