1.21 - Deep Earth Structure - Q of the Earth from Crust to Core

Treatise on Geophysics: Volume 1-10

Volumn 1-10, Issue , 2007, Pages 731-774

  Romanowicz, B ^a   Mitchell, B J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation in the earth; Core; Mantle and Crustal; Q; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882924884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00024-9     Document Type: Chapter

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