Geodynamical modeling and multiscale seismic expression of thermo-chemical heterogeneity and phase transitions in the lowermost mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 244-257

  van den Berg, Arie P ^a   De Hoop, Maarten V ^b   Yuen, David A ^c   Duchkov, Anton ^b   van der Hilst, Robert D ^d   Jacobs, Michael H G ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Mantle convection; Post perovskite; Seismic imaging

Indexed keywords

CLAPEYRON SLOPE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; GEODYNAMICAL MODELING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH-PRESSURE CONDITION; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MINERAL PHYSICS; MULTIPLE INTERFACES; MULTISCALES; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN; OCEANIC CRUST; POST-PEROVSKITE; SEISMIC EQUATION OF STATE; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC STRUCTURE; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; SMALL SCALE; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; THERMO-CHEMICAL; WAVESPEED;

EQUATIONS OF STATE; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; OXIDE MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; PIPE FLOW; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; IMAGING METHOD; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; PHASE TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 77953286650     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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