Imaging upper-mantle discontinuity topography using underside-reflection data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-106

  Neele, Filip ^a,b   De Regt, Han ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

410 discontinuity; 670 discontinuity; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033006604     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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