Global seismic tomography: A snapshot of convection in the earth

GSA Today

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Grand, Stephen P ^a   Van Der Hilst, Rob D ^b   Widiyantoro, Sri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE/MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0030736852     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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