The upper mantle beneath the Philippine Sea region from waveform inversions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1851-1854

  Lebedev, Sergei ^a   Nolet, Guust ^a   Van Der Hilst, R D ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EXPLICIT MODELING; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; SUBDUCTING SLABS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TRANSITION ZONES; VERTICAL COMPONENT; WAVE DIFFRACTIONS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

VELOCITY; TECTONICS;

SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM INVERSIONS;

MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 0031200871     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01847     Document Type: Article

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