General features of the uppermost mantle stratification from long-range seismic profiles

Tectonophysics

Volumn 264, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 261-278

  Pavlenkova, N I ^a  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

North Eurasia; Nuclear explosion wave fields; South Atlantic; Upper mantle boundaries

Indexed keywords

MANTLE (UPPER); MANTLE STRATIFICATION; SEISMIC PROFILE;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTH); EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0030433530     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00131-X     Document Type: Article

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