Seismic evidence for a thinner mantle transition zone beneath the South Pacific Superswell

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1981-1984

  Niu, Fenglin ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Kanjo, Kenji ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

FRENCH POLYNESIA;

EARTHQUAKES; REVERBERATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY; THINNER MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE TEMPERATURE;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034352820     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011280     Document Type: Article

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