Subducted lithosphere or 530 km discontinuity?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1091-1094

  Oreshin, Serge ^a   Vinnik, Lev ^a   Treussov, Alexandr ^a   Kind, Rainer ^b  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TECTONICS; REFRACTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

LITHOSPHERE SLABS; TOMOGRAPHIC MODELS; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; KURIL ISLAND; LITHOSPHERIC SLAB; LOWER MANTLE; NORTHERN EURASIA; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC NETWORKS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

SEISMOLOGY;

DISCONTINUITY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; SUBDUCTED SLAB;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032048918     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00644     Document Type: Article

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