J362D28: A new joint model of compressional and shear velocity in the Earth's mantle

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 443-466

  Antolik, Michael ^a   Gu, Yu J ^a   Ekström, Göran ^a   Dziewonski, Adam M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event location; Mantle heterogeneity; Seismic velocities; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0038526367     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01910.x     Document Type: Article

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