Constraints on lowermost mantle mineralogy and fabric beneath Siberia from seismic anisotropy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 32-42

  Wookey, James ^a   Kendall, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lowermost mantle; post perovskite; shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FLOW REGIMES; FORWARD MODELLING; GERMANY; LATTICE-PREFERRED ORIENTATION; LOWER MANTLE; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MELT INCLUSIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN CANADA; POST-PEROVSKITE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; REFLECTION POINTS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING; SIBERIA; SLIP SYSTEMS; UPPER MANTLE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LITHOLOGY; MECHANISMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY;

AZIMUTH; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LOWER MANTLE; MINERALOGY; PETROFABRIC; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE SPLITTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; HINDU KUSH; SIBERIA;

EID: 53249098367     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.049     Document Type: Article

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