Global de-correlation of the topography of transition zone discontinuities

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 57-67

  Gu, Yu ^a   Dziewonski, Adam M ^a   Agee, Carl B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032522215     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00027-2     Document Type: Article

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