Upper mantle tomographic Vp and Vs images of the Rocky mountains in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico: Evidence for a thick heterogeneous chemical lithosphere

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 154, Issue , 2005, Pages 329-345

  Yuan, Huaiyu ^a   Dueker, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 85040127488     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/154GM25     Document Type: Chapter

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