Constraints on grain size and stable iron phases in the uppermost inner core from multiple scattering modeling of seismic velocity and attenuation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 200-212

  Calvet, Marie ^a,b   Margerin, Ludovic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

attenuation; dispersion; Earth's inner core; grain size; iron elastic properties; multiple scattering

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; ELASTICITY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; VELOCITY;

EARTH'S INNER CORE; IRON ELASTIC PROPERTIES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STABLE IRON PHASES;

EARTH (PLANET);

BODY WAVE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; GRAIN SIZE; INNER CORE; MODELING; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 39749194963     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.048     Document Type: Article

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