The unique anisotropy of the Pacific upper mantle

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6689, 1998, Pages 168-172

  Ekström, Göran ^a   Dziewonski, Adam M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032499937     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28148     Document Type: Article

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