Comment on the article "Probability of radial anisotropy in the deep mantle" by Visser et al. (2008) EPSL 270:241-250

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 223-225

  Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Mainprice, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; RADIAL DIFFUSION; RADIAL FLOW; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 55749103538     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.061     Document Type: Note

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