Fuzzy patches on the earth's core-mantle boundary?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2777-2780

  Garnero, Edward J ^a   Jeanloz, Raymond ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; SEISMIC DATA;

CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EARTH (PLANET); FUZZY SETS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BROADBAND SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY; ULTRA LOW VELOCITY ZONE; VERTICALLY POLARIZED SHEAR;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 0034352631     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL008498     Document Type: Article

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