Seismic heterogeneous structure in the lowermost mantle beneath the southwestern Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Kito, Tadashi ^a   Krüger, Frank ^a   Negishi, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array methods; CMB; D

Indexed keywords

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 10044228609     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002677     Document Type: Article

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