Depth variation of the mid-mantle seismic discontinuity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 429-432

  Niu, Fenglin ^a   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

MIDMANTLE SEISMIC DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC WAVE VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONVERTED WAVE; DEPTH VARIATION; IZU-BONIN ARCS; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SHORT PERIODS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; VELOCITY CONTRASTS;

EID: 0031074456     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00216     Document Type: Article

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