Anisotropy in the Indian Ocean upper mantle from Rayleigh- and Love-waveform inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 529-540

  Leveque J J ^a   Debayle, E ^b   Maupin, V ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0031669651     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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