Upper mantle heterogeneities in the Indian Ocean from waveform inversion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-248

  Debayle, E ^a,b   Leveque J J ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Et Université de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOGRAPHS;

FUNDAMENTAL MODES; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MID OCEANIC RIDGES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

SHEAR FLOW; SEISMOLOGY;

TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; WAVE SEISMOGRAMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

ANOMALIES; EARTH MANTLE; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0031078116     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03954     Document Type: Article

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