PKP(BC-DF) travel time residuals and short scale heterogeneity in the deep earth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3169-3172

  Bréger, Ludovic ^a,b   Romanowicz, Barbara ^a,b   Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^a,b  

^a Berkeley Seismological Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

CONSTANT ANISOTROPY MODEL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

INNER CORE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OUTER CORE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0038674975     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008374     Document Type: Article

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