Evidence for a chemical-thermal structure at base of mantle from sharp lateral P-wave variations beneath Central America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-30

  Sun, Xinlei ^a   Song, Xiaodong ^a,b   Zheng, Sihua ^b   Helmberger, Don V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Slab

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CORE MANTLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOCHEMISTRY; LONGITUDE; P WAVE; PHASE TRANSITION; PKP WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33846041192     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609143103     Document Type: Review

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