A 22°long seismic profile for the study of the top of D'

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3409-3412

  Freybourger, Marion ^a,c   Krüger, Frank ^b,d   Achauer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC PROFILE;

SEISMOLOGY; EARTHQUAKES;

DISCONTINUITY; LOWER MANTLE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FORWARD MODELING; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOW VELOCITIES; SEISMIC PROFILES; STANDARD MODEL; VERTICAL COMPONENT; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0342905081     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010827     Document Type: Article

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