Global Imaging of the Earth's Deep Interior: Seismic Constraints on (An)isotropy, Density and Attenuation

Physics and Chemistry of the Deep Earth

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 324-350

  Trampert, Jeannot ^a   Fichtner, Andreas ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Attenuation; Density; Earth; Imaging; Isotropic velocity tomography; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878204904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118529492.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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