Seismic scatterers at the shallowest lower mantle beneath subducted slabs

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 304-315

  Kaneshima, Satoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

basalt; composition; dehydrated water; fabric transition; heterogeneity; seismic scattering; shallowest lower mantle

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DEHYDRATED WATER; HETEROGENEITY; SEISMIC SCATTERING; SHALLOWEST LOWER MANTLE;

BASALT; FABRICS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WINDOWS;

SCATTERING;

BASALT; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; LOWER MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; WAVE SCATTERING;

ICA; NAZCA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 69549088015     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.044     Document Type: Article

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