Upper mantle velocity structure beneath Italy from direct and secondary P-wave teleseismic tomography

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 175-194

  Cimini, Giovanni Battista ^a   De Gori, Pasquale ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct and secondary P phases; Travel time residuals; Upper mantle tomography

Indexed keywords

P WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC DATA; UPPER MANTLE;

ITALY;

EID: 0031448144     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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