High resolution receiver function imaging of the seismic velocity discontinuities in the crust and the uppermost mantle beneath southwest Japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-64

  Yamauchi, Makiko ^a   Hirahara, Kazuro ^a   Shibutani, Takuo ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

MOHO;

EID: 1442342719     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352463     Document Type: Article

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