A new global PKP data set to study Earth's core and deep mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 15-31

  Garcia, R ^a   Tkalcic H ^b   Chevrot, S ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Core phases; Inner Core; Seismic waves; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; SCATTERING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

CORE PHASES; INNER CORE; SIMULATED ANNEALING WAVEFORM INVERSION OF BODY WAVES;

TECTONICS;

ALGORITHM; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; ROTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SIMULATED ANNEALING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748639087     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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