Upper mantle structure of the southwest Pacific from regional waveform inversion

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 27439-27451

  Xu, Yingbiao ^a   Wiens, Douglas A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE (UPPER); MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

PACIFIC, (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 0031462836     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb02564     Document Type: Article

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