Mantle discontinuities beneath Southern Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 129-1-129-4

  Gao, Stephen S ^a   Silver, Paul G ^b   Liu, Kelly H ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SEISMIC PROSPECTING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES;

GEOPHYSICS;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRANSITION ZONE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0037095809     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001gl013834     Document Type: Article

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