Upper mantle structure of southern Africa from Rayleigh wave tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Li, Aibing ^a   Burke, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PHASE VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY;

AFRICA; CAPE FOLD BELT; KAAPVAAL CRATON; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33845582910     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004321     Document Type: Article

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