Bulk sound travel times and implications for mantle composition and outer core heterogeneity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 499-502

  Bina, Craig R ^a   Silver, Paul G ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COMPOSITION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

CORE MODEL; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE COMPOSITION; POTENTIAL UTILITY; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER MANTLE;

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

MANTLE; OUTER CORE; SOUND TRAVEL TIMES;

CORE (OUTER); MANTLE COMPOSITION; SEISMIC TRAVELTIME;

EID: 0031104059     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00353     Document Type: Article

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