Waveform inversion for S-wave structure in the lowermost mantle beneath the Arctic: Implications for mineralogy and chemical composition

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Kawai, Kenji ^a,b   Geller, Robert J ^c   Fuji, Nobuaki ^c,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; IMPURITIES IN; LOWERMOST MANTLE; POST-PEROVSKITE; RADIAL PROFILES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; WAVE FORMS; WAVE STRUCTURES; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

SHEAR FLOW;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LOWER MANTLE; MINERALOGY; PEROVSKITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 77955746711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043654     Document Type: Article

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