The vertical flow in the lowermost mantle beneath the Pacific from inversion of seismic waveforms for anisotropic structure

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 190-198

  Kawai, Kenji ^a,b   Geller, Robert J ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; D"; Lowermost mantle; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEPTH RANGE; FERROPERICLASE; HOT SPOT; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MG-PEROVSKITE; POST-PEROVSKITE; RADIAL PROFILES; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; TANGENTIAL TRACTION; THERMAL BUOYANCY; TIME WINDOWS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; VERTICAL FLOWS; WAVEFORM DATA; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; PEROVSKITE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; BODY WAVE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ELASTICITY; LOWER MANTLE; MINERALOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77956010658     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.037     Document Type: Article

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