Interpreting D″ seismic structure using synthetic waveforms computed from dynamic models

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 31-41

  Sidorin, Igor ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^a   Helmberger, Donald V ^a   Ding, Xiaoming ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Mantle; Models; Seismology

Indexed keywords

LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MODELING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032456377     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00172-1     Document Type: Article

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