Mantle discontinuities and temperature under the North American continental keel

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6698, 1998, Pages 160-163

  Li, Aibing ^a   Fischer, Karen M ^a   Wysession, Michael E ^b   Clarke, Timothy J ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032504962     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25972     Document Type: Article

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