Chemical and seismological constraints on mantle heterogeneity

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

Volumn 360, Issue 1800, 2002, Pages 2493-2505

  Helffrich, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Heat flow; Mantle; Scattering; Seismology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

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

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

EID: 0037111757     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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