Test of the innermost inner core models using broadband PKIKP travel time residuals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Cao, A ^a   Romanowicz, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HEMISPHERE; INNER CORE; WAVEFORM MODELING;

LITHOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; BROADBAND DATA; INNER CORE; MODEL; ORIENTATION; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250789148     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029384     Document Type: Article

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