Seismic tomographic inversion of Russian PNE data along profile Kraton

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3413-3416

  Nielsen, Lars ^b   Thybo, Hans ^b   Solodilov, Leonid ^a  

^a GEON Center   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; TECTONICS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION (PNE);

SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

DEPTH RANGE; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SIBERIAN PLATFORM; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; UPPER MANTLE; ZERO VELOCITY;

EID: 0033570641     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005370     Document Type: Article

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