Upper mantle shear structure beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue B10, 1996, Pages 22233-22244

  Lee, Duk Kee ^a   Grand, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVE; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION;

USA, COLORADO, ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 17044409727     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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