Complex shear wave velocity structure imaged beneath Africa and Iceland

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5446, 1999, Pages 1925-1931

  Ritsema, Jeroen ^a   Van Heijst, Hendrik Jan ^a   Woodhouse, John H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; ICELAND; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

AFRICA; ICELAND;

EID: 0345072527     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5446.1925     Document Type: Article

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