Mantle discontinuity structure from midpoint stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B4, 1997, Pages 8313-8327

  Dueker, Kenneth G ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030763466     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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