Mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains and High Plains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 7153-7169

  Dueker, Kenneth G ^a   Sheehan, Anne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

COLORADO; USA;

EID: 0032502558     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb03509     Document Type: Article

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