Rolling hills on the core-mantle boundary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 333-342

  Sun, Daoyuan ^a   Helmberger, Don V ^b   Jackson, Jennifer M ^b   Clayton, Robert W ^b   Bower, Dan J ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary (CMB); Iron rich (Mg,Fe)O; Low velocity zone; USArray

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DOME-LIKE STRUCTURES; HEAVY LAYERS; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; LOWER MANTLE; MAGMA OCEAN; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; ROLLING HILLS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SHORT SEGMENTS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; USARRAY; VARIABLE THICKNESS; VELOCITY DROPS; WAVE FORMS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

IRON;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRON OXIDE; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 84872294329     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.027     Document Type: Article

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