3D structure of the Earth's lower mantle

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-35

  Romanowicz, Barbara ^a  

^a Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth's lower mantle; Seismic structure; Tomography

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0037221843     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0713(03)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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