Thickness of the mantle transition zone beneath the South Pacific as inferred from analyses of ScS reverberated and Ps converted waves

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 35-46

  Suetsugu, D ^a   Saita, T ^b   Takenaka, H ^c   Niu, F ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle; Plumes; Receiver function; ScS waves; Superswell; Transition zones

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 3042814760     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2003.06.008     Document Type: Article

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