Mantle shear-wave tomography and the fate of subducted slabs

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1800, 2002, Pages 2475-2491

  Grand, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle; Seismic; Structure; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISASTER; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

EID: 0037111722     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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