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Body wave travel times and surface wave dispersion tend to favour the hypothesis that the low velocity layers are relatively thin zones of high velocity contrast.
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HALES, A., BLOCH, S. Upper Mantle Structure: are the Low Velocity Layers Thin?. Nature 221, 930–933 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221930a0
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