Deciphering shallow mantle stratification through information dimension

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 462-471

  Ramesh, D S ^a   Appala Raju, P ^a   Sharma, Nitin ^a,b   Sharma, S Das ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REVERBERATION;

BEST FIT; CRUST MANTLE; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; INFORMATION DIMENSIONS; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; TIME WINDOWS;

THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ENTROPY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 78649350855     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L117.1     Document Type: Article

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