An empirical relationship between seismic attenuation and velocity anomalies in the upper mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 601-604

  Roth, Erich G ^a   Wiens, Douglas A ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATTENUATION; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); SEISMOGRAPHS; SURFACE WATERS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATTENUATION DATA; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; INVERSE CORRELATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVES;

SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 0034353359     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005418     Document Type: Article

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