Inferences of viscosity from the oceanic geoid: Indication of a low viscosity zone below the 660-km discontinuity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 125-137

  Kido, Motoyuki ^a   Čadek, Ondřej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Convection; Geoid; Mantle; Seismology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; EARTH MANTLE; GEOID; MANTLE; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0031405121     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)81843-2     Document Type: Article

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