Upper mantle convection driving by density anomaly and a test model

Acta Seismologica Sinica English Edition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-33

  Fu, Rong Shan ^a   Wang, Jing Yun ^a   Chang, Xiao Hua ^a   Huang, Jian Hua ^a   Dai, Zhi Yang ^a   Zha, Xian Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Mantle convection; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 14344254116     PISSN: 10009116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11589-005-0003-2     Document Type: Article

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