Global mantle tomography: Progress status in the past 10 years

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue , 2003, Pages 303-328

  Romanowicz, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth interior; Imaging; Seismic structure

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

MANTLE TOMOGRAPHY;

EARTH SCIENCES;

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141680875     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.31.091602.113555     Document Type: Article

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