Trans-Pacific upper mantle shear velocity structure

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Tan, Ying ^a   Helmberger, Don V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTIAL MELTING; S-WAVE; SH-WAVE; STACKING; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TONGA;

EID: 35348880378     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004853     Document Type: Article

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