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The Interdisciplinary Earth: A Volume in Honor of Don L. Anderson
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The Interdisciplinary Earth: A Volume in Honor of Don L. Anderson
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Author(s)
Gillian R. Foulger;
Gillian R. Foulger
Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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Michele Lustrino;
Michele Lustrino
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita` degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro, 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
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Scott D. King
Scott D. King
Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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Geological Society of America

Volume
514
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© 2015 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813725147
Publication date:
October 01, 2015
Book Chapter
Near-vertical multiple ScS phases and vertically averaged mantle properties
Author(s)
Hiroo Kanamori
Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Hiroo Kanamori
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Luis Rivera
Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg CNRS, Strasbourg, F67084, France, and Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Luis Rivera
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Published:October 01, 2015
Near-vertical multiple ScS (S waves reflected at the core-mantle boundary) phases are among the cleanest seismic phases traveling over several thousand kilometers in the Earth's mantle and are useful for constraining the average attenuation and shear wave speed in the whole mantle. However, the available multiple ScS pairs are limited. We took advantage of the recent dramatic increase in the number of global broadband stations and made a thorough computer-assisted search for high-quality data of multiple ScS pairs. We could find 220 station-event pairs which provided us with robust local estimates of average Q (quality factor) and two-way shear wave...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- amplitude
- anisotropy
- Asia
- body waves
- Chile
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- composition
- core
- core-mantle boundary
- East Pacific
- East Pacific Ocean Islands
- elastic waves
- geophysical methods
- global
- Hawaii
- interior
- Japan Trench
- Kamchatka Peninsula
- low-velocity zones
- lower mantle
- mantle
- North Pacific
- Northwest Pacific
- Oceania
- outer core
- Pacific Ocean
- Polynesia
- Q
- reflection methods
- Russian Federation
- Russian Pacific region
- S-waves
- Samoa
- seismic methods
- seismic networks
- seismic waves
- seismograms
- South America
- South Pacific
- Southeast Pacific
- subduction zones
- synthetic seismograms
- temperature
- Tonga Trench
- United States
- velocity
- velocity analysis
- West Pacific
Latitude & Longitude
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N43°30'00" - N65°00'00", E141°30'00" - E180°00'00" -
S14°19'60" - S13°34'60", W173°00'00" - W169°00'00" -
N19°00'00" - N28°30'00", W179°00'00" - W155°00'00" -
S56°00'00" - S17°45'00", W76°00'00" - W67°00'00" -
N51°00'00" - N60°00'00", E155°00'00" - E168°00'00" -
N25°00'00" - N41°00'00", E141°00'00" - E145°00'00" -
S25°00'00" - S14°00'00", W175°30'00" - W172°00'00"
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