Seismic evidence for a rapidly varying compositional anomaly at the base of the earth's mantle beneath the Indian Ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 194, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 83-95

  Wen, Lianxing ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Differentiation; Earth; Geochemical anomalies; Partial melting

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DIFFERENTIATION; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0035706864     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00550-7     Document Type: Article

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