Large variations in travel times of mantle-sensitive seismic waves from the South Sandwich Islands: Is the Earth's inner core a conglomerate of anisotropic domains?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC DOMAINS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CORE STRUCTURE; CYLINDRICAL ANISOTROPY; EARTH'S FREE OSCILLATION; EARTH'S MANTLE; INNER CORE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P WAVES; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

CORE SAMPLES;

ANISOTROPY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONGLOMERATE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; INNER CORE; MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OSCILLATION; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS;

EID: 77955297296     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043841     Document Type: Article

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