Very low shear wave velocity at the base of the mantle under the South Pacific Superswell

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 879-893

  Tanaka, Satoru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mantle; S SKS times; S waves velocity; Shear; SKKS SKS times; SKS waves; South Pacific; Superswells

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; PLUME; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037110715     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00918-4     Document Type: Article

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