Asymmetric ocean basins

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-62

  Panza, Giuliano ^a,d   Doglioni, Carlo ^b,e   Levshin, Anatoli ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; LOW-VELOCITY LAYERS; MINIMUM VALUE; OCEAN BASINS; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; RIFT BASIN; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHIC;

IGNEOUS ROCKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASTHENOSPHERE; ASYMMETRY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; S-WAVE; SUBMARINE RIDGE; SURFACE WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; MID-INDIAN RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 73849128942     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30570.1     Document Type: Article

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