Small scale hot upwelling near the North Yellow Sea of eastern China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Ai, Yinshuang ^a   Zheng, Tianyu ^a   Xu, Weiwei ^a   Li, Qiang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Seismological Bureau of Liaoning Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP PENETRATIONS; EASTERN CHINAS; LOWER MANTLES; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SINKING SLABS; SMALL SCALES; STACKING METHODS; TRANSITION ZONES; UP-WELLING; YELLOW SEAS;

MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC CONVECTION; STACKING; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 58249090398     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035269     Document Type: Article

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