Broadband converted phases from midmantle discontinuities

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 987-997

  Vinnik, Lev ^a,b   Niu, Fenglin ^a   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 0032427440     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352193     Document Type: Article

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