Hemispherical variations in seismic velocity at the top of the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6832, 2001, Pages 1081-1084

  Niu, Fenglin ^a   Wen, Lianxing ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

SEISMIC VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CORE (PLANETARY); INNER CORE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035953607     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35074073     Document Type: Article

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