Upper mantle seismic discontinuities: Topography variations beneath Eastern Europe

Acta Geophysica Polonica

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-270

  Świeczak, Marzena ^a   Grad, M ^c   Achauer, U ^c   Ansorge, J ^c   Arlitt, R ^c   Berthelsen, A ^c   Budweg, M ^c   Busche, H ^c   Cotte, N ^c   Gregersen, S ^c   Guterch, A ^c   Gossler, J ^c   Hock, S ^c   Kind, R ^c   Kissling, E ^c   Korn, M ^c   Mosegaard, K ^c   Paulssen, H ^c   Pedersen, H ^c   Pedersen, L B ^c   Pedersen, T ^c   Plomerova J ^c   Rabbel, W ^c   Roberts, R G ^c   Shomali, H ^c   Thybo, H ^c   Voss, P ^c   Waldhauser, F ^c   Wilde Piorko M ^c   Woelbern, I ^c   Ziegler, P ^c   Zuchniak, M ^c   Alinaghi, A ^c   Bock, G ^c   Bruneton, M ^c   Friedrich, W ^c   Hjelt, S E ^c   Hyvonen T ^c   Ikonen, J P ^c   Komminaho, K ^c   Korja, A ^c   Heikkinen, P ^c   Kozlovskaya, E ^c   Nevsky, M V ^c   Pavlenkova N ^c   Raita, T ^c   Riznichenko, O ^c   Sandoval, S ^c   Sanina, I A ^c   Sharov, N ^c   Tiikkainen, J ^c   Volosov, S G ^c   Wielandt, E ^c   Wylegalla, K ^c   Yliniemi, J ^c   Yurov, Y ^c   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

410 km and 660 km discontinuities; Passive experiment; SVEKALAPKO; TOR; Upper mantle transition zone

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; EARTH (PLANET); THERMOMETERS;

MANTLE TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPPER MANTLE;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 4744365076     PISSN: 00015725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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