The apparently isotropic Australian upper mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Heintz, Maggy ^a   Kennett, Brian L N ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

POLARIZATION PLANE; SEISMOLOGICAL STATIONS; UPPER MANTLE;

SHEAR WAVES;

ISOTROPY; LITHOSPHERE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMAN PENINSULA; TASMANIA;

EID: 33845637818     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026401     Document Type: Article

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