Double beam imaging: Mapping lower mantle heterogeneities using combinations of source and receiver arrays

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B1, 1997, Pages 507-522

  Scherbaum, Frank ^a,b,c   Krüger, Frank ^a   Weber, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Seismologisches Zentralobservatorium Gr fenberg SZGRF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE/MANTLE BOUNDARY; DOUBLE BEAM METHOD; MANTLE (LOWER); SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030755822     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb03115     Document Type: Article

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