Regional variations in the uppermost 100 km of the Earth's inner core

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Stroujkova, Anastasia ^a   Cormier, Vernon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Inner core; PKiKP; PKIKP; Seismic phases; Travel times

Indexed keywords

INNER CORE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 10644254080     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB002976     Document Type: Article

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