A Regionalized Upper Mantle (RUM) seismic model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 7121-7136

  Gudmundsson, Ólafur ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0032502492     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb02488     Document Type: Article

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