Global variations of temperature and water content in the mantle transition zone from higher mode surface waves

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 91-101

  Meier, U ^a   Trampert, J ^a   Curtis, A ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Edinburgh Collaborative of Subsurface Science and Engineering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nonlinear inversion; surface waves; tomography; transition zone

Indexed keywords

COLD SUBDUCTIONS; EARTH'S MANTLES; GLOBAL VARIATIONS; HIGHER MODES; HOT SPOTS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONES; NONLINEAR INVERSION; NONLINEAR JOINTS; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

WATER CONTENT;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA INVERSION; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MOHO; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WATER CONTENT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 67349277269     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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