Seismic evidence for water deep in Earth's upper mantle

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5625, 2003, Pages 1556-1558

  Van der Meijde, Mark ^a   Marone, Federica ^a   Giardini, Domenico ^a   Van der Lee, Suzan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); SEISMIC WAVES; WATER;

MANTLE TRANSITION ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY;

WATER;

DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPPER MANTLE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; OBSERVATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEISMIC VELOCITY DISCONTINUITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THICKNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037905394     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083636     Document Type: Article

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