Crust and upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath eastern North America

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Li, Aibing ^a   Fischer, Karen M ^a   van der Lee, Suzan ^b   Wysession, Michael E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Eastern North America; Mantle discontinuity; Receiver function

Indexed keywords

CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISCONTINUITY; MOHO; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE;

(EAST); NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0037053556     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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