Coexisting shear- and compressional-wave seismic velocity discontinuities beneath the central Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2281-2284

  Russel, S A ^a   Reasoner, C ^a   Lay, T ^a   Revenaugh, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; BOUNDARY LAYERS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPRESSIONAL WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS; SHEAR FLOW;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; P-STRUCTURES; P-VELOCITY; P-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHORT PERIODS; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 0035364215     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012553     Document Type: Article

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