A shear-velocity model of the mantle

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1711, 1996, Pages 1385-1411

  Masters, Guy ^a   Johnson, Stuart ^a   Laske, Gabi ^a   Bolton, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; S WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030470391     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0054     Document Type: Article

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