Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Baikal rift and adjacent areas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Kelly H ^a,b   Gao, Stephen S ^a,b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE PLUME; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 34547922843     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004099     Document Type: Article

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