Sharp and seismically transparent inner core boundary region revealed by an entire network observation of near-vertical PKiKP

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 855-863

  Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array analysis; ICB; Inner Core; PKiKP; Stacking

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; INNER CORE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STACKING; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

MARIANA ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34249800737     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351990     Document Type: Article

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