Global seismological shear velocity and attenuation: A comparison with experimental observations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 65-75

  Dalton, Colleen A ^a   Ekström, Göran ^b   Dziewonski, Adam M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

attenuation; seismology

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION MODEL; ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GLOBAL SCALE; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYSICS DATA; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; TECTONIC REGIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY MODEL;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; EXCITONS; MINING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SILICATE MINERALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WATER CONTENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODELING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 67449086539     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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