Seismic detection of folded, subducted lithosphere at the core-mantle boundary

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7091, 2006, Pages 333-336

  Hutko, Alexander R ^a   Lay, Thorne ^a   Garnero, Edward J ^b   Revenaugh, Justin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; PEROVSKITE; PHASE SHIFT; SILICATES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LATERAL TEMPERATURE; THIN HOT THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; WAVE SPEED REGIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

PEROVSKITE;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DISCONTINUITY; FOLDING; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PHASE TRANSITION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION;

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NATURAL SCIENCE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 33745907242     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04757     Document Type: Article

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