Variable seismic structure near the 660 km discontinuity associated with stagnant slabs and geochemical implications

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 183-198

  Tajima, Fumiko ^a   Katayama, Ikuo ^a   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broadband seismic waveform modeling; Geochemical implications; Stagnant slab; Variable discontinuity depths

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKES; GARNETS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BODY WAVES; BROADBAND SEISMIC WAVEFORM MODELING; CLAPEYRON SLOPES; DISCONTINUITY STRUCTURES; GEOCHEMICAL IMPLICATIONS; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; HIGH VELOCITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SEISMIC STRUCTURES; STAGNANT SLAB; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLES; VARIABLE DISCONTINUITY DEPTHS; WAVE TRAVELS; WITH OR WITHOUT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DISCONTINUITY; GARNET; GEOCHEMISTRY; MODELING; P-WAVE; PEROVSKITE; REFLECTIVITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 57749201151     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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