Depths of the 410-km and 660-km discontinuities in and around the stagnant slab beneath the Philippine Sea: Is water stored in the stagnant slab?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 270-279

  Suetsugu, Daisuke ^a,b   Inoue, Toru ^b,b   Obayashi, Masayuki ^a   Yamada, Akira ^b   Shiobara, Hajime ^c   Sugioka, Hiroko ^a   Ito, Aki ^a   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^c   Kawakatsu, Hitoshi ^c   Shito, Azusa ^a   Fukao, Yoshio ^a   Bina, Craig ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mantle transition zone; Stagnant slab; Water content

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND DATA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; OCEAN-BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; P-VELOCITY; PRESENCE OF WATER; RECEIVER FUNCTION METHOD; SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC PARAMETERS; STAGNANT SLAB;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WATER CONTENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; BROADBAND DATA; ESTIMATION METHOD; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SLAB; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER CONTENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 78649444244     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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