Investigating the lowermost mantle using migrations of long-period S - ScS data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 667-678

  Chambers, Kit ^a,b   Woodhouse, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D region; Lower mantle; Migration; Scattering

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SET; LOWER MANTLE; RADON TRANSFORM;

EID: 33746112968     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03002.x     Document Type: Article

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