Tomography of core-mantle boundary and lowermost mantle coupled by geodynamics

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 730-746

  Soldati, Gaia ^a   Boschi, Lapo ^b   Forte, Alessandro M ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body waves; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Inverse theory; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FREE PARAMETERS; INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; INVERSE THEORY; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MANTLE FLOW; PELTIER; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC PHASIS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THERMAL HETEROGENEITY; TOMOGRAPHIC MAPS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

GEODYNAMICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA INVERSION; GEODYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER MANTLE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 84859708852     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05413.x     Document Type: Article

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