Upper Mantle

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

 

Seismic evidence for sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundaries of oceanic plates [PDF]

H. Kawakatsu et al.

Science

2009

 

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

 

A complex 660 km discontinuity beneath northeastern China [PDF]

Y. Ai; T. Zheng, W. Xu; Y. He

EPSL

2003

 

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