Mantle skewness and ridge segmentation

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7241, 2009, Pages

  Singh, Satish C ^a   MacDonald, Ken C ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE; MOHO; SEISMIC WAVE; SKEWNESS; TOMOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPWELLING; WAVE VELOCITY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; HISTOGRAM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 65549135214     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07887     Document Type: Article

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