Anticorrelated seismic velocity anomalies from post-perovskite in the lowermost mantle

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5879, 2008, Pages 1070-1074

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL; PEROVSKITE;

ANOMALY; BULK MODULUS; COCOS PLATE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE; P-WAVE; PEROVSKITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR MODULUS; WAVE VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 46449106002     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155822     Document Type: Article

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36. We thank Q. Williams and J. Hernlund for helpful discussion and comments. This work was supported in part by NSF under grants EAR-0453884 and EAR-0453944. Seismic data were obtained from the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Berkeley, and Caltech/U.S. Geological Survey TRInet data centers.