Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 195-212

  Houser, C ^a,b   Masters, G ^a   Shearer, P ^a   Laske, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Mantle processes; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; BODY WAVE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA SET; MANTLE PROCESS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 45249095601     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03763.x     Document Type: Article

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