Complex phase distribution and seismic velocity structure of the transition zone: Convection model predictions for a magnesium-endmember olivine-pyroxene mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 36-48

  Jacobs, Michael H G ^a   Van den Berg, Arie P ^b  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compressible mantle convection; Mantle transition zone; Mineral physics; Seismic reflectivity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONVECTING MANTLE; CONVECTION MODEL; DEPTH RANGE; DOWN-WELLING; ENDMEMBERS; FREQUENCY FILTERING; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; MINERAL PHASE; MINERAL PHASIS; MINERAL PHYSICS; MODEL RESULTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; REFLECTIVITY DATA; REFLECTIVITY PROFILES; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC REFLECTIVITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMIC DESCRIPTION; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; WAVESPEED;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MAGNESIUM; MINERALS; OLIVINE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PIPE FLOW; REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TECTONICS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

SILICATE MINERALS;

GEODYNAMICS; MAGNESIUM; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIVINE GROUP; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 79953673020     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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