Probabilistic tomography maps chemical heterogeneities throughout the lower mantle

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5697, 2004, Pages 853-856

  Trampert, Jeannot ^a   Deschamps, Frédéric ^a   Resovsky, Joseph ^a   Yuen, Dave ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BUOYANCY; DATA REDUCTION; PEROVSKITE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY TOPOGRAPHY; BULK SOUND; GRAVITY CONSTRAINTS; MODE SPLITTING;

TOMOGRAPHY;

PEROVSKITE;

BUOYANCY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DENSITY; GRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 7444248513     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101996     Document Type: Article

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