Slope of the geoid spectrum and constraints on mantle viscosity stratification

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 3063-3066

  Čížková, Hana ^a   Čadek, Ondřej ^a   Yuen, David A ^b   Zhou, Hua Wei ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VISCOSITY;

HIGH RESOLUTION; LOG-LOG PLOTS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE VISCOSITY; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCES; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY INCREASE;

VISCOSITY; GEOLOGY;

GEOID SPECTRUM; MANTLE VISCOSITY STRATIFICATION;

MANTLE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0030265452     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02257     Document Type: Article

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