Mantle transition zone structure beneath Tanzania, East Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 827-830

  Owens, Thomas J ^a   Nyblade, Andrew A ^b   Gurrola, Harold ^c   Langston, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; TRANSITION ZONE;

TANZANIA;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MINERALS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL STACKING METHOD;

SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; TANZANIA , EAST AFRICA; TANZANIA CRATONS; THERMAL ANOMALIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL STACKING; TRANSITION ZONES;

EID: 0034353335     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005429     Document Type: Article

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