Mantle variation within the Canadian Shield: Travel times from the portable broadband Archean-Proterozoic Transect 1989

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B1, 2000, Pages 579-605

  Bokelmann, Götz H R ^a,c,d   Silver, Paul G ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND DATA; MANTLE; TRAVEL TIME;

CANADA;

EID: 0034627638     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900387     Document Type: Article

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