Possible evidence for a double crossing phase transition in D″ beneath Central America from inversion of seismic waveforms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Kawai, Kenji ^a   Takeuchi, Nozomu ^b   Geller, Robert J ^b   Fuji, Nobuaki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; SHEAR-VELOCITY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

BODY WAVE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; PHASE TRANSITION; SEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 34347359767     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029642     Document Type: Article

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