Small scale heterogeneity in the mid-lower mantle beneath the circum-Pacific area

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 91-103

  Kaneshima, Satoshi ^a   Helffrich, George ^b   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basaltic rocks; Lower mantle; Scattering waves; Seismic array; Small scale heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ROCKS; LOWER MANTLE; SCATTERING WAVES; SEISMIC ARRAYS; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY;

ARRAY PROCESSING; BASALT; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; ELASTICITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCATTERING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICA; TOMOGRAPHY;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; ARRIVAL TIME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HETEROGENEITY; LOWER MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PACIFIC PLATE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR MODULUS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; WAVE SCATTERING;

FIJI; IZU-BONIN ARC; KURIL BASIN; MARIANA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 78649444109     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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