Global images of the upper 200 km in the Earth by short-period surface waves

Journal of Physics of the Earth

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-226

  Tanimoto, Toshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LOVE WAVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031417141     PISSN: 00223743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4294/jpe1952.45.203     Document Type: Article

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