Normal mode sensitivity to Earth's D″ layer and topography on the core-mantle boundary: What we can and cannot see

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 553-568

  Koelemeijer, P J ^a   Deuss, A ^a   Trampert, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composition of the mantle; Mantle processes; Seismic anisotropy; Surface waves and free oscillations; Theoretical seismology

Indexed keywords

ANTICORRELATION; BODY WAVES; CHEMICAL VARIATIONS; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DENSITY ANOMALIES; EARTH'S FREE OSCILLATION; FREE OSCILLATION; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTERNAL BOUNDARY; LIQUID IRON; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOWERMOST MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PROCESSES; NORMAL MODES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR-WAVE ANISOTROPY; SILICATE MANTLES; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; ULTRALOW VELOCITY ZONE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LIQUID METALS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR WAVES; SILICATES; SURFACE WAVES; TOPOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PROCESS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84862184343     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05499.x     Document Type: Article

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