Low seismic resolution cannot explain S/P decorrelation in the lower mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mora, Della S ^a   Boschi, L ^a   Tackley, P J ^a   Nakagawa, T ^a   Giardini, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY;

COMPOSITIONAL EFFECTS; COMPRESSIONAL; DECORRELATIONS; INPUT MODELS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOWER MANTLE; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; REALISTIC DATA; SEISMIC RESOLUTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SYNTHETIC DATA; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TOMOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION; WAVE VELOCITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTIFACT; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LOWER MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SHEAR; SOUND VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 79959992911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047559     Document Type: Article

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