On the robustness of global radially anisotropic surface wave tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ferreira, A M G ^a,b   Woodhouse, J H ^c   Visser, K ^d   Trampert, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 77956013087     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006716     Document Type: Article

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