Direct measures of lateral velocity variation in the deep Earth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sun, Daoyuan ^a   Helmberger, Don ^a   Ni, Sidao ^b   Bower, Dan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b URS Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH; GEODYNAMICS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; S-WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651089745     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005873     Document Type: Article

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