Group-velocity tomography of South America and the surrounding oceans

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 324-340

  Vdovin, Oleg ^a   Rial, José A ^b   Levshin, Anatoli L ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Crust; Seismic tomography; South America; Surface waves; Upper mantle; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032942098     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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