2013 Spring (Upper Mantle Discontinuities)
Suggested Readings
Helffrich, G. (2000), Topography of the Transition Zone Seismic Discontinuities, Rev. Geophys., 38, 141-158 Deuss, A. (2009), Global Observations of Mantle Discontinuities Using SS and PP Precursors, Surv. Geophys., 30, 301-326 Rondenay, S. (2009), Upper Mantle Imaging with Array Recordings of Converted and Scattered Teleseismic Waves, Surv. Geophys., 30, 377-405 |
Date |
Title |
Author |
Journal |
Year |
2014/05/15 | Changes in Seismic Anisotropy Shed Light on the Nature of the Gutenberg Discontinuity | C. Beghein; others | Science | 2014 |
2013/07/25 | Mantle transition zone thining beneath eastern Africa: Evidence for a whole-mantle superplume structure [PDF] | G.D. Mulibo; A.A. Nyblace | GRL | 2013 |
2013/07/18 | P and SH velocity structure in the upper mantle beneath Northeast China: Evidence for a stagnant slab in hydrous mantle transition zone [PDF] | J. Li; D. Yuen; others | EPSL | 2013 |
2013/03/13 | Seismic Evidence for Water Deep in Earth's Upper Mantle [PDF] | M. van der Meijde; others | Science | 2003 |
2013/03/13 | Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter [PDF] | D. Bercovici; S.-I. Karato | Nature | 2003 |
2013/02/01 | Seismic constraints on the water flux delivered to the deep Earth by subduction [PDF] | B. Savage | Geology | 2012 |
2013/01/25 | Mantle flow deflected by interactions between subducted slabs and cratonic keels [PDF] | M.S. Miller; T.W. Becker | NatureGeo | 2012 |
2013/01/25 | Seismic anisotropy of subducting oceanic uppermost mantle from fossil spreading [PDF] | P. Audet | GRL | 2013 |
2013/01/04 | Body-Wave Imaging of Earth's Mantle Discontinuities from Ambient Seismic Noise [PDF] | P. Poly; M. Campillo; H. Pedersen; LAPNET Working Group | Science | 2012 |
2012/09/17 | The Gutenberg discontinuity: Melt at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary [PDF] | N. Schmerr | Science | 2012 |
2011/05/27 |
A low-velocity zone atop the transition zone in northwestern Canada [PDF] |
A.J. Schaeffer; M.G. Bostock |
JGR |
2010 |
2011/05/13 |
Structure of crust and upper mantle beneath the Ordos Block and the Yinshan Mountains revealed by receiver function analysis [PDF] |
X. Tian et al. |
PEPI |
2011 |
2011/04/22 |
Low-velocity atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States [PDF] |
T.-R. A. Song; D.V. Helmberger; S.P. Grand |
Nature |
2004 |
2011/03/10 |
Depths of the 410-km and 660-km discontinuities in and around the stagnant slab beneath the Philippine Sea: Is Water stored in the stagnant slab? [PDF] |
D. Suetsugu; T. Inoue; M. Obayashi; A. Yamada; H. Shiobara; H. Sugioka, A. Ito; T. Kanazawa; H. Kawakatsu; A. Shito; Y. Fukao |
PEPI |
2010 |
2010/10/06 |
Seismic evidence for a global low-velocity layer within the Earth's upper mantle [PDF] |
B. Tauzin; E. Debayle; G. Wittlinger |
Nature Geoscience |
2010 |
2010/04/28 |
Mantle shear-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hot spot [PDF] |
C.J. Wolfe; S.C. Solomon; G. Laske; J.A. Collins; R.S. Detrick; J.A. Orcutt; D. Bercovici; E.H. Hauri |
Science |
2009 |
2010/03/24 |
Fast P- and S-wave velocities associated with the "cold" stagnant slab beneath the northern Philippine Sea [PDF] |
H. Sugioka; D. Suetsugu; M. Obayashi; Y. Fukao; Y. Gao |
PEPI |
2010 |
Before 2009 |
A Global View of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary [PDF] |
C.A. Rychert; P.M. Shearer |
Science |
2009 |
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Seismic evidence for sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundaries of oceanic plates [PDF] |
H. Kawakatsu et al. |
Science |
2009 |
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Depth variations of the 410 and 520 km-discontinuities beneath Asia and the Pacific from PP precursors [PDF] |
J. Schafer; I. Wolbern; G. Rumpker |
GRL |
2009 |
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A complex 660 km discontinuity beneath northeastern China [PDF] |
Y. Ai; T. Zheng, W. Xu; Y. He |
EPSL |
2003 |