Evidence for strong shear velocity reductions and velocity gradients in the lower mantle beneath Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4245-4248

  Ritsema, Jeroen ^a   Ni, Sidao ^a   Helmberger, Donald V ^a   Crotwell, H Philip ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRESS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; TIME DELAY; VELOCITY;

AFRICA; GEODYNAMIC MODELING; MANTLE; PRELIMINARY REFERENCE EARTH MODEL; SHEAR VELOCITY REDUCTION; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; BROAD-BAND SEISMIC STATIONS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; PROPAGATION TIME; SOUTHWESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN; VELOCITY CONTRASTS;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE PLUME; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0033489819     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900127     Document Type: Article

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