1.17 - Deep Earth Structure - Transition Zone and Mantle Discontinuities

Treatise on Geophysics: Volume 1-10

Volumn 1-10, Issue , 2007, Pages 591-618

  Kind, R ^a   Li, X ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

410 and 660 discontinuities; Gutenberg discontinuity; Hales discontinuity; Lehmann discontinuity; Lithosphere asthenosphere boundary; Upper mantle discontinuities

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054102348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00020-1     Document Type: Chapter

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