Ridge-like lower mantle structure beneath South Africa
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Ridge-like lower mantle structure beneath South Africa
[1] Recent (ScS-S) results from probing the deep structure beneath southern Africa display strong delays of up to 10 s at distances beyond 90 . Such delays could be explained by long-period tomographic models containing smooth (weak) features with the addition of rough (strong) D00 structure (3–9% drops in shear velocities). However, these structures cannot explain the (SKS-S) differentials sam...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2001jb001545