Synthetic seismograms for a synthetic Earth: Long-period P- and S-wave traveltime variations can be explained by temperature alone

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1393-1412

  Schuberth, Bernhard S A ^a   Zaroli, Christophe ^a   Nolet, Guust ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Body waves; Composition of the mantle; Computational seismology; Heat flow; Wave propagation; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CHEMICAL HETEROGENEITIES; DELAY TIME; ELASTIC STRUCTURES; FINITE-FREQUENCY EFFECTS; FORWARD MODELLING; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; HEAT FLOWS; HIGH HEAT FLUX; HIGH RESOLUTION; LENGTH SCALE; LIMITED RESOLUTION; LOWER MANTLE; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MANTLE CIRCULATION MODEL; MANTLE FLOW; NONUNIQUENESS; P- AND S-WAVES; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PYROLITE; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC HETEROGENEITY; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL VARIATION; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRAVEL TIME;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEODYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HEAT TRANSFER; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARRIVAL TIME; HEAT FLUX; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; P-WAVE; PYROLITE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84857039437     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05333.x     Document Type: Article

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